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...yammering classes keep comparing this situation to 1960, and keep citing Richard Nixon's supposedly selfless decision not to challenge John Kennedy's almost invisible and highly dubious margin of victory in Cook County, Illinois. Selfless maybe. Some said it was the prospect of counter-challenges to Republican votes in downstate Illinois that deterred Nixon - along with knowledge that if he challenged the result, it would both tear the nation apart and forever end his political career...
Short on cash and arguably shorter on ideas, the Undergraduate Council adopted a plan last week to collect "eploid" points from the back of discarded Frito-Lay bags at the fly-by lunch counter. Like children compulsively playing Frogger in order to earn the 1,000 ticket laser wand behind the counter at Chuck E. Cheese, council members hope to scrounge enough oily plastic refuse to successfully bid for a new Gateway computer during a 100 day eploid.com web auction...
...polling station opened for business at 7:02 a.m., a group of about 20 voters filed into the long hallway leading to the voting room. Almost immediately, the electronic vote counter misfed one of yesterday's unusually long ballots...
...next leader of the free world. However, now is not the time to gloat about how the smarter man won out in the end. Nor is it the time to plan your emigration to Canada in the case that he didn't--at least, not quite yet. As counter-intuitive as it may seem, now is the time to be thinking about the next presidential election. In 2004 the next incumbent free-riding off the nation's economic success and the next challenger pledging to restore moral authority to the White House will invariably ask you if you are better...
When the panel opened itself up to audience questions, many wanted to know what measures could be taken to counter existing stereotypes...