Word: citizens
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...woman told Ford and Marissa L. Long ’08, according to the volunteers. One man claimed Kerry and Osama Bin Laden were working together; another said he didn’t vote “on principle.” A senior citizen in a retirement community intimated that he would call the cops if the volunteers didn’t promptly leave the property...
...voting system shall at any time contain or use undisclosed software. Any voting system containing or using software shall disclose the source code of that software to the Commission, and the Commission shall make that source code available for inspection upon request to any citizen...
That’s not necessarily a failure on the part of the play, however. While it is important to remember the historical processes that have gotten us to today’s democracy, it is just as valid to question government systems that can make a citizen feel powerless and then apathetic. It would seem that Odyssey achieved at least one of its goals: generating discussion. Quite a few departing audience members, myself included, were rehashing David’s questions as we left the theater, debating the possibilities and effectiveness of political involvement...
...Nader’s veracious message of reform. If we all must suffer through four more years of hell to get to that point, then so be it. Mr. Nader is not running for office for personal, political, or monetary gain, he’s just the Public Citizen doing what he has always done—fighting wholeheartedly for what he knows is right—which is trying to make government serve the needs as well as reflect the values of its citizenry, as a proper democracy is intended to do. What do Bush and Kerry reflect...
...seems, at the very least, far less awkward than any character in his films. After exploring the unlikable, self-tortured inhabitants of his hometown of Omaha in Citizen Ruth, Election and About Schmidt, Payne, 43, has moved on to unlikable, self-tortured Californians. In his latest film, Sideways, opening Friday, the director and his longtime writing partner Jim Taylor turned a novel by Rex Pickett into a quirky movie about a failed writer and a C-list actor who go on a weeklong wine-tasting bachelor party through the vineyards near Santa Barbara. Paul Giamatti plays the novelist...