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...which also requires routine audits in at least 3% of the precincts in all federal elections, and contemplates mandating paper-trail capability on any type of voting technology as early as the 2008 election - is the clearest sign yet of the stampede away from touch-screen. Its backers, like Dan McCrea, head of the Florida Voters Coalition, insist bills like this are necessary to get states to move to optical scanning, even if they are understandably reluctant to trash their investments in DRE. McCrea calls that foot-dragging the electoral equivalent of "buying a fleet of Pintos whose gas tanks...
That was the deal enshrined by the Freedom to Farm law of 1996--except the part about no more subsidies. "The regular order took over," recalled Dan Glickman, a former Kansas Congressman who was President Clinton's Agriculture Secretary. "There was a lot of hefty intellectual discussion about weaning farmers off the dole, but of course, it didn't happen." Instead, GOP leaders agreed the next farm bill would wean farmers off subsidies but only after they received seven years of guaranteed transitional payments--even when prices were high. Farmers also received more generous crop-insurance subsidies so that Congress...
Three students will serve on the panel: Madelyn M.L. Ho ’08, Dan R. Pecci ’09, and Kennedy School grad and New York City Ballet principal dancer Damian Woetzel...
...rights to their own published works so that they can be used free of charge, the library system has to continue to pay indefinitely.“Most digital resources are licensed—we purchase access to the materials, rather than owning them outright,” Dan C. Hazen, associate librarian of Harvard College for collection development, writes in an e-mail. This means that once the payments stop, the access to information stops too. In addition, these electronic resources are licensed for the entire community, which creates even more problems. “This being decentralized Harvard...
...Holmquest said. “I probably let the race get away from me a little between the two and the three-mile marks...Looking back, I definitely would’ve wanted to be more aggressive in the middle part of the race.” Freshman Dan Chenoweth finished shortly behind in 16th place with a time of 25:15.8, just shy of an All-Ivy distinction but the top finish by a freshman on the men’s side of the meet. “He emerged as our second runner at arguably the biggest meet...