Word: weeks
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...week ahead, two issues remain to determine the next President of the United States. One is the Gore case against the Miami-Dade County canvassing board--a group who, it seems, felt intimidated by the actions of Republican protesters crowding the halls of their offices Wednesday and decided to call off a count of the thousands of "no vote" ballots in their county. The actions of Republican partisans--taking to the radio to encourage angry citizens to descend on the canvassing board office and prevent them from doing their work--erode any credibility Texas Gov. George W. Bush...
...election has continued through the long weekend; despite the certification of results in Florida, no president has yet been chosen. Again, this week the courts will play a pivotal role in deciding how to proceed into murky, unexplored territory, of how to determine a result of minute proportions in a system built for landslides. We must still wait...
Games like Saturday night's were the reason that Coach Mark Mazzoleni was hired last year. This week was perhaps the first real, hard evidence that his program is working. Harvard edged Boston University, 4-3, at Walter Brown Arena on Tuesday and nearly walked away with pure Boston bragging rights on Saturday...
Cliff S. Davidson '02, a co-founder of the social group BOND, submitted his request last week, hoping to spend the money to pay prominent athletes to speak on homosexuality in sports...
...keep on playing, which might explain the public's patience with the candidates' choice not to surrender. Americans forgive ambition; we like grit and persistence, treat them as virtues as long as the cause seems just. An old Republican well into his 70s telephoned an even older Democrat last week in Washington. Both men had flirted with the presidency; one had even survived a primary or two. The Republican asked his old friend, Could you do it? If you were this close, could you turn away? The other guy, now past 80, laughed and said, I couldn't, and neither...