Word: ballot
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...addition to the touching relationship that develops between Blondie and Carolyn, Altman (who co-wrote the story) presents lingering buffer shots of Seldom's jazz players at the Hey-Hey Club; an amusing ballot-stuffing sequence, headed by the ubiquitous Steve Buscemi as Blondie's sister's main squeeze; and even an odd story line about a young jazz musician and the pregnant 14-year-old he befriends. Rounding off the historical side are various pleasant touches: one political makes a mistake about a friend's wife ("Oh, Bess is Truman's wife!"); Blondie takes Mrs. Stilton...
...have a nice day." For the courtly black businessman who led California's campaign to end race- and gender-based affirmative-action policies--first at the University of California, where he is on the board of regents, then throughout state and local government and education, with the 1996 ballot initiative known as Proposition 209--such epithets are commonplace. But the young man in the Capitol was especially upset because the initial consequences of the university's new race-neutral policy were just being felt. In the first year without affirmative action at U.C. Berkeley's Boalt Hall law school, black...
...Gallup survey released the same week found that only 37% of whites and 12% of blacks favor a "decrease in affirmative action." In a California exit poll last year, 27% of those who voted for Proposition 209 said they supported affirmative action--even though they had just cast a ballot to eliminate...
Last week, for example, the President said he hopes to "convince people that they should revisit some of the issues that were involved in Proposition 209," California's anti-affirmative action initiative; but when it was actually on the ballot and forceful opposition might have cost him some votes in the largest state, candidate Clinton rarely brought it up. And with the courts hacking away at preferential treatment of minority college applicants, critics say Clinton would do more to help them attain higher education if he were to pour money into improving urban elementary schools rather than giving tax breaks...
...coming to power in 1992, but was disappointed when only 66 percent voted. Turnout was especially low in Algiers, where a FIS bombing campaign designed to discourage voters had killed 22 in the past week. In addition, TIME's Scot MacLeod reports that while international monitors agree that outright ballot fraud was relatively absent, most Algerians believe the outcome was rigged from the start since Zeroual party relied on government patronage and control of television to boost its chances...