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...opinion. One of those to be sure is timeliness: blogs, unlike the Crimson, update continuously, even at odd hours of the night when both their authors and readers are putting off writing papers. Another factor is simple pluralism: unlike the world at large, Harvard has (by the most generous count) two newspapers, one of which has a publishing cycle longer than the campaign itself.Before I pat the back of the nascent world of internet journalism and congratulate it on a job well done, however, I want to pause for a moment to think through some of the reasons...
Students at the University of Michigan looking for a quick caffeine-fix may no longer count on always having a Coca-Cola after the university suspended its purchases of Coke products...
...seats in the country's congress. Meanwhile, the President has shored up and increased his popularity by bankrolling massive social spending programs with the $83 billion in oil revenues. He has virtual control of all state institutions, from tiny municipal governments to the supreme court. Don't count on him losing the election. -By Brian Ellsworth/Caracas
...vote or because the card is now required for all state transactions. The majority of the 40,000 pollworkers needed for election day have been recruited but not trained. And even though there are new measures to reduce fraud, including transparent ballot boxes and a new system to count and transmit results, the process may be undermined by inadequate surveillance, logistical trouble and bitter local political rivalries...
This much you can count on: the fallout from exposure of the NSA surveillance program will be with us for months to come. Republican Arlen Specter, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has already announced his intention to start hearings this month to find out just what the NSA is up to and whether acting without warrants was really necessary. In addition, the House and Senate Intelligence Committees are almost certain to make deeper inquiries. Meanwhile, the Justice Department is launching an investigation of its own, into how word of the secret program was leaked to the Times. Justice officials...