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...have arguably been exposed to some of the brightest minds of my generation. Since freshman year, I have been continually disappointed at a profound lack of intellectualism in most students. The game of “who can name the most philosophers in two minutes” does not count as intellectualism. The disturbing behavior I have observed is the unwillingness of students to form coherent and logical arguments...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. However, you will be able to go back and drink and hang out with people who have all been through that particular building, and when Harvard seems like an alien place as it no doubt will in twenty or thirty years, that really does count for something in the eyes of most graduates...
...create the illusion that there are solid Republican and solid Democratic states. But in the 2000 race, in red Colorado, Al Gore won the support of more than 42% of the voters. Bush won 41% in blue California. If every state adopted 36's rules, those supporters' votes would count for something. "It could make California and New York worth a Republican effort," says James Gimpel, an Electoral College expert at the University of Maryland. "Wouldn't it be nice, if you were a Democrat in Texas, to actually see a Democratic presidential candidate visit?" The reform would also greatly...
...Choice for President went looking for a state where the rules could be changed by ballot initiative. In Colorado, case law has established that such initiatives are the equivalent of legislative acts. The foundation teamed up with reform-minded Coloradans, who started a campaign called Make Your Vote Count and collected more than 134,000 signatures to put 36 on the ballot. Most of the financial backing has come from J. Jorge Klor de Alva, the former president of the University of Phoenix, a for-profit adult-education school. Klor de Alva, who divides his time between Brazil and California...
...signed up online, 1.2 million volunteers who have offered to do grunt work like knocking on doors and making calls, 47,000 house parties for Bush, even 379,000 letters to the editor. "We call him Rain Man," says a senior Bush aide. "But instead of being able to count a spilled box of toothpicks at a glance, he can rattle off registration figures for central Ohio counties...