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...financial reports came from unaudited results in the hospital's state Medicaid department application for $990,000 from the "distressed hospital fund...
This election will be remembered as the only presidential contest that has been essentially decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, an unfortunate end to this turbulent process. The Florida Supreme Court's decision should have stood; it alone is the highest judge of Florida's state laws. The U.S. Supreme Court, by intervening in this issue when it clearly could not come up with a convincing, one-sided decision, has not upheld its duty to impartially enforce the law. By the admission of the dissenting justices, the court may have permanently damaged its credibility as a nonpartisan institution...
Clearly, all of the legally-cast ballots in the state of Florida should have been counted; the willingness of both Republicans and Democrats to try to disenfranchise some voters through litigation was startling. In particular, the efforts of President-elect George W. Bush to prevent a statewide recount were disappointing. We believe that this intransigence was born out of a fear that a recount would show that the people of Florida actually chose Gore for the presidency...
That struggle may have started its last mile on the road to success last month, when the National Labor Relations Board ruled that teaching fellows at private universities are eligible to organize (teaching fellows at public universities, covered by state rather than federal law, have been in recognized unions for over 30 years). With this decision, Harvard TFs are now legally able to form a union. If they consider this option, the Harvard community should reflect on the shameful response to the graduate student union movement at Yale to avoid replicating the sorry experiences of our colleagues in Connecticut...
Last night, from the heart of the Texas State House, Texas Gov. George W. Bush earnestly accepted the monumental task facing...