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...accounts. The big stripe on the top of the backside of the Harvard ID is associated with the Harvard University Identification Number. Neither the ID number nor the big stripe will work in the dining halls after the switch takes place. If students forget their IDs, swipers will have backup cards to let students eat while they are getting used to the new system, Martin said. The switch does not require new card readers. The second stripe is only on new ID cards, which undergraduates and house affiliates received in September. The remainder of the campus will get new cards...
...incorrectness, and a man who embodied both. Directed by Malcolm D. Lee and written by Robert Ramsey and Matthew Stone—the duo behind “Intolerable Cruelty”—“Soul Men” is a lowbrow comedy about two 1970s backup singers who reunite to perform at a memorial concert for their former group leader. The film opens with a hilarious montage of the group’s earlier years when they were known as “Marcus Hooks and the Real Deal.” When Hooks (John Legend...
James Dobson may be the only Evangelical whose Sunday school teacher apparently never warned him to be careful what he prayed for. Two weeks before Election Day, the Focus on the Family founder chatted with Sarah Palin on his radio show and shared his backup plan for the struggling GOP ticket. He was, Dobson told her, praying for "God's intervention" and that "God's perfect will be done on November...
...polling station, and was met by a pair of attorney's from nearby Chicago who volunteered to monitor polling stations for such issues. The man had come to the polling station with a hand full of telephone, electricity and gas bills. "This was supposed to be my backup," he said. The two poll watchers advised him to go to a nearby DMV to get a new driver's license. "You'll come back, right?" said the female poll watcher, who said she was advised to not give her name to reporters...
...like planning a military invasion. It really, really is," says Rokey Suleman, general registrar for Fairfax County, Va., who has recruited 3,100 election workers and more than 500 high school volunteers for Election Day. Suleman has managed to stockpile enough backup paper ballots for 103% of registered voters. He has also contacted the police to ask them to be close by (but not too close by); planned for alternate polling places for every location that can be organized within one hour, in case of a terrorist attack or power outage; and set up a telephone translation service at every...