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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (2188)12/21/2000 7:53:16 PM
From: Mephisto  Read Replies (1) of 4583
 
I know and the hosts were explicit about what happened with the vote. It must be rumor. Who knows where they picked it up. I've been meaning to drop a note to friend in Florida to see what he thinks of it all. He and his wife are retired, but he's from the south and he was trained as an historian so I'm sure he'll have some interesting things to say.

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A letter from last Sunday's NYTIMES. It is sad:

Re: Another kind of Bitter Split" (front page, Dec. 14); Virtually all of the students I teach who were eligible to vote did so, and with a radiance that personified the deepest optimism of the founding fathers in the enduring strength of an educated populace. Neither impeachment nor divisive campaign rhetoric dampened their faith. They just asked new, more and better questions.

In the wake of the United States Supreme Court's decision handing George W. Bush victory, there is a silence in our halls that is stunning by contrast. One student expressed it this way:, "It is as if the questions are now too big to ask, and the answers too unbelievable."

This may be the most bitter split of all resulting from the court's decision ---- a breach of faith between those who govern and the citizenry whose consent and right to be heard are the source of their legitimacy and power.

Susan Eisner
The writer is a professor of management at Ramapo College.

Letter published in The New York Times Sunday, December 17, 2000
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