Word: ways
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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While the words "constitutional crisis" may be part of media-driven overkill, insecurity regarding our entire electoral system abounds. The New York Times has announced that although we are the world's oldest and most successful democracy, we have a deeply flawed way of electing our president. Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe '62, argues quite persuasively that the electoral college system is a "train wreck waiting to happen" that is embedded in our revered Constitution. Immediately after becoming senator-elect, Hillary Clinton upped her approval ratings by vowing to sponsor a constitutional amendment that would abolish...
...council, remedy this "constitutional crisis?" Many of the poll's respondents urged the country to follow the council's example. Both Geoffrey J. King '00-'01 and Harpaul A. Kohli '02 thought that voting should be changed to the council's voting system, called the Transferable ballot. This way voters could rank Nader first and Gore second, thereby not hurting Gore since in an election this close second-place votes would certainly have been counted. Letalien disagreed: "I hate to burst the bubbles of our most community-action oriented members, but this may be a bit beyond our jurisdiction. What...
...election came. We expected that, either way, that would be would be that. The result was hard to anticipate - too close to call - but we would have a winner in the morning...
...sure this recount drama ascends to the plane of archetypal drama (as O.J. does, in some awful way). A story qualifies as myth if the outcome ends up in the court of the gods. This recount just winds up in court. Still, there is the ancient theme of the rivalrous brothers. And the contested prize is nothing less than the kingdom...
...when George W. Bush makes his planned 10:15 rejoinder - talk about getting out-maneuvered - it won't be enough to lean on Harris and her reading of the law. He'll have to find a way to defuse Gore's little masterpiece if he wants to keep the public on his side...