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...president-elect, had no immediate comment. But former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, representing Bush, said the Texas governor and his running mate Dick Cheney were "very pleased and gratified" with the court's ruling." He stopped short of calling on the vice president to concede, though several prominent Democrats, including the chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), publicly advised Gore to end his campaign...
...application process--which ended on Sunday--drew more applications than the group's founders expected, though they would not cite a specific figure...
...seems as though the older generation will not let them forget...
...selects its candidates for the award. While well-meaning, Harvard's Rhodes endorsement competition, carried out by the college and administered by the Office of Career Services (OCS), consistently denies qualified candidates university endorsement, as Gerson himself and the Warden of Rhodes House noted on a recent visit. Even though college officials moved to address Gerson's concerns by raising the number of endorsements by 21 percent this year, so many clearly qualified candidates remained on the sidelines that it's no surprise Harvard was denied outright this time around...
Every fall, over 80 Harvard students apply for University endorsement, a necessary prerequisite for applying to the Rhodes scholarship itself--though many schools bypass this process and instead endorse all their applicants outright. Harvard's complex, two-tiered endorsement committee consistently rejects more than half who apply. Before getting started, these potential Rhodes Scholars are stopped in their tracks, deemed unworthy by the committee of even having a shot at the mystical award...