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...Diebold, was widely accused in 2004 of ties to the Republican Party.) Fifteen Florida counties adopted touch-screen as well, and they learned the pitfalls of it the hard way, dealing with controversies like a 2006 congressional race in the Sarasota district, where an astonishing 15% of the ballots cast registered no choice at all - in a race that was decided by a razor-thin margin of 386 votes...
...When Abraham Lincoln created the U.S. Department of Agriculture, half the country still farmed. He once said farmers were "neither better nor worse than any other people," just "more numerous." (They also received inordinate political flattery, "the reason of which I cannot perceive, unless it be that they can cast more votes.") Under F.D.R., 1 in 5 Americans was still a farmer...
...Literatures department, who aided the members of Teatro with mounting the production. “I admire this group of students who have dared to delve into Lorca’s universe, which is so complex and so intense.”The first obstacle Teatro faced was casting. “Automatically, you limit your talent pool,” said Hanley. “There is a good third of the cast for whom Spanish is an absolute second language. Their progress and talent have been amazing.” The actors said that it is challenging...
...come see “Urinetown?”AS: Well, “Urinetown” is an amazing show about pee, which is something everyone can relate to. Everyone pees. It’s not like a pseudo-intellectual sort of show. RR: Do you have the cast hold it in for long periods of time in order to get in the mood?AS: That’s something I’m trying. I was thinking maybe today or tomorrow, just to really help them get into character, like, hold them in a room for three hours...
...encounter between the evil sorcerer Oswald, Cupid, and the tutelary spirit of the frost.The set design, which consists of sliding panels that close and open up, approximating an authentic baroque set, allows the production to move between the world of spoken dialogue and the rarified realm of the masques.The cast and crew speculate that the masques’ focus on the aesthetic and the figurative has allowed them to age more gracefully than the unmusical parts of the script.“People have to interpret the spoken dialogue as comedic now,” Powell explains...