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Second, a single election day will alleviate election and campaign burnout. Many voters felt overwhelmed by the November election and are turned off by the “permanent campaign” of national politics. Staggering local elections with national elections only makes this burnout worse. For example, the mayoral election in Los Angeles is the fourth major election in a year and a half (after the recall, the primary and the presidential election), and the runoff that will likely follow will be the fifth. As a result, the Los Angeles Times has reported greater voter apathy and disinterest...
...BURNOUT 3: TAKEDOWN It's not about the racing. It's about causing enough drive-time carnage to make the evening news...
Most driving games tend to reward you for steering clear of other drivers. Not the Burnout franchise. You can still race around a track if you want, but where Burnout 3 (for PlayStation2 and Xbox; $49.88) really excels is in Crash Mode. Your task here is to speed kamikaze-like into a series of major intersections and create enough dollars' worth of auto carnage to merit a bronze, silver or gold medal. Time slows down at the moment of impact, and you can keep steering your careering car for maximum pileup potential. Sounds simple, but you will be surprised...
...Larry Sloman) has a gift for describing pleasure, especially that of playing music with your pals, something that rarely comes through on the page. The best scene in the book occurs when the Peppers first hook up with drummer Chad Smith, who walks in looking like a metal-head burnout and then stuns the band when he pounds the skins like Art Blakey. "It was a big eruption of sound and energy," Kiedis writes, "and all I could do was laugh hysterically." Now that's something even a square like Dylan could relate...
...there was an expectation that people would stay longer,” Kaufman said. The committee, he said, proposed “a different model,” in which academics will hold lecturer posts for approximately two years. “We’re afraid of burnout,” he said...