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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...broader scale, this election may also prove a corrective to blind states'-rights activists. The federal government and its bureaucracy have a tendency to creatively and arbitrarily mess things up, but, as we've seen, devolving power to state and local officials doesn't solve the problem of homosapient-ism, which is to say that human beings have biases, perspectives, quirks, and make errors. (Theresa LePore, a Democrat, tried to help seniors read the ballot in Palm Beach by making the type-face bolder. In doing so, she had to re-arrange candidate's names. That might have cost...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, | Title: Memo to Elites: It's Really Not So Bad! | 11/29/2000 | See Source »

After leaving the state to attend a law school that admitted blacks, he went on to defend Parks and King, and to help to desegregate Alabama...

Author: By Eugenia B. Schraa, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Panelists: Message of Boycott: One Person Can Make a Difference | 11/29/2000 | See Source »

Gray pointed to what she said were worrisome trends in Alabama at the moment. For the first time in 20 years, he said, there will be no black judges on the highest state court, and electoral districts have been redistributed in a way that decreases the number of black voices in Congress...

Author: By Eugenia B. Schraa, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Panelists: Message of Boycott: One Person Can Make a Difference | 11/29/2000 | See Source »

Nowhere is this trend more apparent than at MIT. In addition to the settlement, the school took back the bachelor's degree of the graduate who provided Krueger with the alcohol. Now, students say, the row of MIT-affiliated fraternities lining the Charles River resembles a police state...

Author: By Dan Rosenheck, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Puritan Beantown: Hub Cracks Down on Alcohol | 11/29/2000 | See Source »

Massachusetts state law requires vendors to accept only valid in-state licenses, passports or military identification as proof of age, meaning that if an underage student purchases alcohol with an out-of-state ID, the establishment is liable. But many sellers accept out-of-state licenses at their own risk to serve the sizeable portion of their client base represented by Boston's polyglot student population...

Author: By Dan Rosenheck, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Puritan Beantown: Hub Cracks Down on Alcohol | 11/29/2000 | See Source »

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