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...record number of Republican students cast their votes last night to elect the new leadership of the Harvard Republican Club (HRC) at the end of what was an unusually competitive campaign...

Author: By Victoria Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Downer Elected HRC President | 12/16/2004 | See Source »

...can’t seem to consistently produce accurate, problem-free electronic voting machines, there are other companies that do. For example, Sequoia Voting Systems, the third largest voting systems company in the country, already employs a system that prints a simultaneous paper ballot with each touch screen vote cast. It is precisely the receipt that currently makes using an ATM safer than a paperless voting machine— the physical, unalterable, readable proof of the transaction. Yet somehow this is something that neither ES&S nor Diebold has managed, despite the fact that more than three-quarters of Diebold?...

Author: By Susan E. Mcgregor, | Title: The F Word | 12/16/2004 | See Source »

...percent of the nearly 4,000 students who cast ballots in last week’s election favored adding the proposed fee to the termbill, signaling campus support for at least giving individuals the opportunity to choose to contribute funding towards wind power (76 percent of voters preferred the fee remain optional). However, despite having garnered proof of their significant student backing, the EAC and its supporters now face the most significant obstacle to making the fee a reality: the Faculty Council...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: One Last Hurdle | 12/15/2004 | See Source »

...Bennelong Point to the nearby Helsing?r-Elsinore peninsula, where Shakespeare set Hamlet. What eventually crystallized in his drawings was a raised plateau and airborne structures not unlike sails. In his original plans, the podium would house the backstage business; upstairs, the public spectacle would unfurl. Utzon is often cast by his critics as a Hamlet-like figure, a daydreamer unable to carry out his plans. This exhibition shows quite the opposite. When the shells at first proved too irregular to cast from cement, Utzon drew on a 900-year-old Chinese treatise on architecture, Ying Zao Fa Shi, which taught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Shells | 12/14/2004 | See Source »

...commercial wind development, there is also oppression and opposition. Because not only do wind farms ruin local living environments, they apparently do it for no good reason, according to recent data pouring in from around the world—data that run counter to those of the industries and cast serious doubt on their ability to sincerely address the critical issues theyclaim they are committed...

Author: By Sue Sliwinski, | Title: Wind Energy's Dark Side Should Cause Pause | 12/13/2004 | See Source »

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