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There is a simpler reform that would ensure the popular-vote winner a majority in the Electoral College: award a bonus of 102 electoral votes, two for each state and for the District of Columbia, to the winner of the popular vote. Under this reform, there would remain a temptation to bring moral pressure on individual electors to reject the decisions of their states and shift their votes to the popular-vote winners. This invokes the myth that the Founding Fathers expected the electors to be free agents. The evidence is that the Founders fully expected the Electoral College...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Electoral College Debate: Election 2000: It's A Mess, But We've Been Through It Before | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

Wanted: Investment bankers. Earn top-notch salary in glamorous, exciting industry. Signing bonus available...

Author: By F. REYNOLDS Mcpherson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A+ for Effort | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

...years ago, Massachusetts became the first state to offer a signing bonus of $20,000 to new teachers, including recent college grads, as well as intensive summer training and accelerated accreditation. Other programs, like the popular Teach for America, a national teachers' corps, make it easier for graduates to enter school systems while also giving the teaching profession an intangible sheen of prestige...

Author: By F. REYNOLDS Mcpherson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A+ for Effort | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

...says that new programs like Massachusetts' signing bonus program enhance the respect and support given to education...

Author: By F. REYNOLDS Mcpherson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A+ for Effort | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

...believe the signing bonus is an important sign of government commitment to acknowledging the vital role that teachers play in the community," Small says...

Author: By F. REYNOLDS Mcpherson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A+ for Effort | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

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