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...Napster and within a week, I had over 100 songs. No, they weren't old Less Than Jake albums--most of my new music collection consisted of sugary Top 40 ditties and short-lived 80s hits. But it expanded to include a wide variety of classical compositions, a big chunk of classic rock and even some rap and country. Now, my mp3 collection numbers around 600 and takes up about two gigabytes of space on my hard drive. Probably not what my parents envisioned I'd be using my computer for in college, but I consider it an investment...
Radonsky has never fed the geese before and she's having trouble getting the hang of it. One chunk of bread lands on a goose's back. A gull swoops down to snatch it up. Another goose just walks away from the bread she's holding in her hand...
...media biased? You know it, I know it, everyone and their brother knows it, even if we can't necessarily agree on which way. Certain major chunks of the national media are a bit conservative-challenged; certainly too a major chunk of the well-paid, 401K-holding media elite aren't exactly friendly to firebrand radicalism...
...scale lobbying of electors to change their votes? Maybe and maybe - but it would definitely mean some measure of suspense and controversy until the electors actually vote. Better yet, it would mean four years of bitter recriminations of a president, whoever it ends up being, viewed by a substantial chunk of the electorate as illegitimate...
...major debate between the two candidates has focused on teacher accountability and the merit of high-stakes testing to measure school success. Gore, unwilling to pressure the teachers' unions from which he derives a significant chunk of his support, would encourage schools to use voluntary testing to measure progress and merely requires that failing schools be identified. Yet without mandated testing to measure failing schools, a missing link exists between identifying these schools and fixing them...