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Senior defender Sam Wiggin was also missing for most of the game, after picking up a red card in the 21st minute and forcing Harvard to play a man down for the rest of the afternoon. The ejection was the Crimson’s third of the year...

Author: By Karan Lodha, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Offensive Streak Continues for M. Soccer | 10/27/2004 | See Source »

Widespread DRE use is already being realized. In response to the debacle that was Florida in the 2000 presidential election, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) in 2002. HAVA allocated $3.86 billion in federal funds for the replacement of lever and punch card voting systems across the country. To comply with HAVA, a state may either continue to use punch card systems by “(i) establishing a voter education program specific to that voting system that notifies each voter of the effect of casting multiple votes for an office; and (ii) providing the voter with instructions...

Author: By Susan E. Mcgregor, | Title: Electronic Election Economics | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

Director Peter Chelsom’s new movie, Shall We Dance?, has a dance card full of big-name actors but leaves its audience with little except bruised toes. A remake of Japanese director Masayuki Suo’s 1996 film of the same title—from which it imports most scenes and some dialogue—the movie ultimately seems as bungling on its feet as many of the characters it portrays. John Clark (Richard Gere) wants to ballroom dance. In Suo’s Japanese film this is understandably mortifying because, as a voiceover tells...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happening | 10/22/2004 | See Source »

...MBTA pilot is successful, these tokens and passes would be replaced by a swipe card system, which would allow riders to purchase cards and add value to them at T station machines...

Author: By Brendan R. Linn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: T Tokens May Disappear in 2005 | 10/22/2004 | See Source »

...Election Assistance Commission. The actual election commissioners, however, weren’t appointed until Dec. 2003, and there is a conspicuous lack of funding. Moreover, the technical voting problems of the Florida ballot still exist; an estimated 32 million voters in 19 states will use the ill-fated punch cards. Thus we must prepare ourselves for an encore of the notorious hanging chads. The few reforms that have been instituted are still vulnerable to litigation post-election. For example, new electronic voting equipment that resemble ATMs are supposed to be far more accurate than the old punch card or lever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: History's Most Litigious Election | 10/21/2004 | See Source »

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