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...home run. If Harvard wishes to continue restricting the number of candidates it endorses for institutional reasons, then at the very least OCS can ensure a full accounting of candidates' worthiness by bringing its endorsement competition in line with the Rhodes selection procedures. This would mean including a full slate of letters of recommendation and perhaps even a round of interviews...
...would hope that the United States Supreme Court may render moot what we did today," said Florida House Speaker Tom Feeney after orchestrating a 79-41 passage of a resolution anointing George W. Bush's slate of 25 electors as the people of Florida's choice...
...more unified on those days when Republicans are shouting about Gore's theft of the election or stirring up heavy-handed protests in Florida. Another chance for Democratic unity may come this week, if the Republican-controlled Florida legislature meets in a special session to consider naming a slate of Bush electors to be sent to the Electoral College--regardless of the outcome of Gore's contest. These legislators are some of Bush's most loyal servants, willing to send the Bush electors to Washington on Dec. 18 even if the Florida courts decide Gore electors are the rightful appointees...
...chambers meet on Jan. 5. The Republican-majority House would probably pick Florida's Bush electors. The evenly divided Senate would probably choose Gore's (as Vice President, Gore gets the deciding vote). If this split decision happens, the chief executive of Florida--Jeb Bush--gets to choose which slate to endorse. Will he crown his brother...
...legislature's electors will be seated. But if the two houses of Congress split on that (probably, with a Republican House and a Democratic Senate), the decision will go back to the chief executive of the state. Jeb Bush will then become the first state executive to name a slate of electors to defeat the popular vote, the first to have the choice of President come down to him, the first to award the presidency to a brother. And he once thought George could win without...