Word: electivity
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TIME: You starred with the Governor-elect of California in Junior...
...misfortune could happen to California? Well, Joan Didion, who was born and raised there, could write an elegantly acerbic book arguing that the sustaining myths by which the state defines itself are false, self-deluding and corrupt. Where I Was From (Knopf; 226 pages) is that book, and Governor-elect Schwarzenegger, for one, can give thanks that it was written too soon to include...
...majority of college students elect politicians based on leadership skills, experience and authenticity,” said vice-president of the IOP-SAC Betsy A. Sykes ’04, who oversaw the survey...
...team that wins the toss must score a touchdown on its opening drive in order to win a sudden death victory. This would prevent the more common “drive down the field and kick a field goal” event that fans hate. Now, teams could still elect to do this, but they would then have to stop the opposing team, get the ball back, and kick another field goal...
...abandon ideals for pragmatism, it’s out of a very real, very intense fear. A fear that my vote for a candidate other than Clark could help re-elect perhaps the most provocative, dangerous man ever to run this country. A fear that, by 2008, America will have rejected dozens of other international treaties and mandates, invaded Iran and North Korea, and alienated itself from its allies and the rest of the world. Most of all, a fear that America will suffer serious, perhaps even nuclear, attacks—a fear that I might die before...