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...then there are the actual incidents, the exam horror stories, that necessitate proctor intervention...
...current systems are insufficiently equipped to stave off the threat of malfunction or manipulation. Therefore, many are calling for a paper trail, or “ballot receipts,” to ensure that in the event of a close or contested election, officials will have evidence of the actual votes. We feel strongly that this is a necessary precaution...
Even without Harvard examples of actual arrest or physical abuse, however, verbal abuse due to bathroom confusion certainly takes place on this campus, and has happened to me personally several times, at least once in interactions with professional proctors during exam period. For the record, I do not identify as a transgendered individual, but I am a somewhat androgynous-looking (both by choice and by genetics) woman who often has trouble ‘passing’ as a member of my own gender. I certainly would not feel more comfortable entering a men’s restroom, although...
...spends so much time trying to keep things secret. The White House let it be known that it would ask for an additional $25 billion for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan in fiscal 2005--a number many budget experts believe must be doubled or tripled to cover the actual cost during the coming year. But the Administration has so far refused to detail how it would spend the money, something that doesn't sit well with lawmakers who know, thanks to Bob Woodward's latest book, that the Pentagon secretly shuffled $700 million in 2002 to pay for secret...
...hours later, the upfront that began with a fake Beatles ended with a surprise performance by The Who. The actual Who - surviving members Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend - playing their songs that have been adapted as "CSI" themes (for "CSI: NY," it's "Baba O'Reilly"), for what amounts to a sales conference of ad men, brand managers and TV affiliate executives. It was one of the sadder things I've ever seen, and yet it was somehow appropriate. They closed with "Won't Get Fooled Again" - the "CSI: Miami" theme - which, for its time (1971), was an unusually conservative...