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Halloween wasn’t the only event celebrated this past weekend—the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology ensured that “Dia de los Muertos,” a festival with Mexican and Central American origins, was commemorated as well. This weekend, the museum staged a two-part celebration. During the day, it held a family-oriented series of activities which included sugar skull painting, papel picado craft, and skull mask making. Harvard Ballet Folklórico de Aztlán, a traditional Mexican folk dancing troupe, also made an appearance. Later...
...De Kai, a Hong Kong-based musician who is registered to vote in California, was still waiting for his absentee ballot to arrive in the mail on Oct. 27. "It's really sort of unfathomable that we're still plotting through this medieval paper-based way of voting that is such a nightmare," says Kai. For swing state voters, this waiting game is more agonizing. "I ordered my absentee ballot from Colorado, a swing state, months ago, and never received it," says Kristen Allen, a reporter for The Local, an online daily news website in Berlin, Germany...
...sometimes find yourself holding de facto therapy sessions for some of your fans at your signings...
...country where real democracy was suspended for two generations, but where for the past almost 40 years, loving and united families voted for opposite political extremes, and where groups of opposing political supporters crossed the street to greet each other. May God bring back sanity to America. A.J.R. Soares de Mello, LISBON...
...reason, besides the reduced number of polling sites, is that since there are only a handful of central voting sites, distinct ballots must be printed out onsite to match each voter's particular precinct. In Palm Beach County, for example, there are 185 different ballots. Palm Beach's de facto interim elections chief, assistant county administrator Brad Merriman, has had to enact several changes in recent weeks to ensure those votes "are all accounted for, every step of the way" between now and Nov. 4; one such change has been to make sure early votes are transported to tabulation sites...