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...both attended Nashua High School with Gallichon and Nelson.Edwards, like Gallichon, is running to represent District 26, a hotly contested area with 10 seats and 10 candidates from each party. At 400 members, the New Hampshire House of Representatives is the third-largest parliament in the English-speaking world, beaten out only by the U.S. Congress and the British Parliament, its Web site boasts.Nelson is more skeptical of Edwards and Fontas’ candidacies, saying that because they do not live full-time in Nashua they may be more likely to be “vanity candidates...

Author: By Rachel B Nolan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Next State Rep? This One Wears Braces | 10/31/2006 | See Source »

...could turn off the air conditioning and spent a week sleeping with all his clothes on. The loudness and lewdness of the preshow festivities at an NBA game seemed to him "perfectly designed to drive people insane." The book is framed by Deng's experience of being robbed and beaten in his apartment in Atlanta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: I See Him in Me | 10/30/2006 | See Source »

...just such a paper trail that enabled Marilyn Jo Drake, the auditor in Iowa's Pottawattamie County, to suss out an anomaly in a county-recorder race she was monitoring in June. She noticed that a 20-year incumbent was being beaten 10 to 1 by an unknown newcomer. Sensing a glitch, Drake cross-checked the electronic results against the totals on the paper vote and discovered the veteran was actually well ahead. The problem, it turned out, was the way the candidates' names had been ordered and coded into the access cards that activated the machines, which were made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Voting Machines Work? | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

...compilation ends after an exhausting 3.7 hours, by which time you will have been beaten over the head with the genius of the arrangements many times over. Despite their historical and technical brilliance, the band remains defined by its era. Weather Report ushered in a wholly original sound, mastered the genre in fifteen years, and left little else to be done—they came, they fused, they conquered...

Author: By Kimberly E. Gittleson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CD Review: Weather Report, “Forecast: Tomorrow” | 10/19/2006 | See Source »

Cheney: Well, I talk to a lot of Iraqis, and the ones I talk with have been very grateful and expressed their gratitude. They also -- I think it's a measure of the extent to which they've been beaten down during Saddam's years in power, especially the Shi'as, who are the majority -- roughly 60 percent of the population, who are clearly very heavily engaged now in the new government, but who were denied their role all those years Saddam was in power, governed by a Sunni minority, if you will -- and so beaten down, especially after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exclusive Interview: Cheney on Elections and Iraq | 10/19/2006 | See Source »

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