Word: civics
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...sensible, civic-minded spirit doesn't guarantee the losing camp won't sue when it's all over. But Minnesota law, which was perfected after a gubernatorial recount in 1962, has a plan in case of a dead tie: a coin flip. The state already did one this year for a school-board seat in Farmington. Ritchie has been looking around for a good coin for the Coleman-Franken race; he says the quarter with Minnesota on the back is the way to go. "I was watching Leatherheads, the football movie, and you realize there are angles on coin-tossing...
...those crazy Hollywood liberals-show 'em an opportunity to school the nation on civic duty, and they never fail to jump. While this tendency can sometimes lean towards the sanctimonious, not so this farcical Funny or Die skit, in which composer Marc Shaiman wrangled a glittering cast of comedians to weigh in on the controversial California ballot initiative passed last month...
...pleased to hear that the American Presidency exam has been moved, but this change is not nearly sufficient,” said Jason Y. Shah ’11, one of the leaders of the protest effort regarding the schedule. “The goal is to permit civic participation for the entire Harvard undergraduate population, which extends far beyond the students in that class.” Shah is a student in Government 1368: “The Politics of American Education,” one of the almost 40 classes affected, and he said he has not heard...
...students particularly for the Obama inauguration. He said he hopes it will become University policy to allow students to make up exams that fall on Inauguration Day. “It is our position that every inauguration should be a day during which students are allowed to exercise their civic duty,” he said. Once the College’s calendar changes next year, final exams will no longer fall in January. But for Shah, Parikh, and Zampardo—along with 2,000 others—that change might come a year too late...
...flying kicks or the wushu horse stance for the camera these days. They don't even want his autograph much. What they want to do, amid the moral vacuum of modern China, is feed off the aura of a man preaching compassion and civic duty. When Li takes the rostrum, he reminds people of a time before land grabs, kickbacks and beatings - of a China in which people were not counterfeiting, short-changing, corner-cutting, milk-adulterating hucksters but virtuous and simple. "Before this country opened up, people were more focused on their spiritual lives," he says. "Since this country...