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...only beaten Dartmouth in a game between winless teams. For the second consecutive season, a poor performance against the Big Green has raised concerns amongst the media and fans alike about the Crimson’s ability to execute. Most importantly, another injury threatens to alter Harvard’s season...
...shows uncertainty or weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy." Yet both candidates have shifted course on many major foreign policy issues, ultimately arriving at positions that resemble each other's more than either man likes to admit. But if both have shown a capacity to alter their policies, both cling to disparate world views. The problem is that neither man's philosophy on its own is entirely satisfying in the wake of Sept. 11. Fashioning a strategy that can keep the country safe while advancing U.S. values over the next four years will require either...
...four security weaknesses in Diebold's AccuVote-TS. Most distressing: anyone who lays his hands on a voting supervisor's card could access the system and tamper with results. A 2003 Johns Hopkins University study found that hackers could devise their own smart cards and vote multiple times or alter voting results. A Diebold spokesman insists that the company has addressed the problems of AccuVote-TS, but neither Ohio nor California is buying it. California decertified 14,000 Diebold machines earlier this year...
...more sanguine view. "Based on more than 200 years of history, the likelihood of a disputed result is 1 in 25," he says. Presidential elections are usually not that close, he notes, and even in states where the outcome is razor-thin, changing the result there may not alter the outcome of the overall election. Baran posits that this election has less potential for mayhem than we're expecting. "With all these lawyers and all this public attention and Florida fresh in their minds, everyone will be much more careful this time than four years ago," he says. But just...
...debt will substantially increase their tax burden. We take issue with Bush’s mortgaging of the environment in deference to corporate interests. And based on Bush’s nominees for federal appeals courts, we shudder to think how Bush’s Supreme Court nominees would alter the social landscape of this country—starting with a repeal of Roe v. Wade—for the decades to come...