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...Except, of course, that these resolutions have only symbolic power--and real policy change still has to come from state and federal governments. "Referendums are the protest vehicle for the new century," says Elizabeth Garrett, director of U.S.C.'s Initiative and Referendum Institute. "People are dissatisfied with federal leadership, and voting is the best way they know to voice it." Lawmakers rarely take heed of such ballot measures, but maybe they should. The initiatives bring voters to the polls--turnout in Baraboo, Wis., tripled this election cycle. "More votes," says Garrett, "is a message politicians on every level understand...
...walk down the aisle Thursday night, largely because the compromise he, Frist and 63 other Senators had embraced was as close to perfect as any bill the Democrats could hope for. It followed Ted Kennedy's plan to put most of the country's 12 million illegal immigrants (except for the estimated one million or so who have been in the U.S. for less than two years) on an eventual path to citizenship and open up a massive new legal immigration system for low-wage workers; at the same time, it would have removed many of the draconian penalties that...
...Dean’s Office declined to release the event’s budget, except to say that Summers’ office would fund the concert...
...Dean’s Office declined to release the event’s budget, except to say that Summers’ office would fund the concert...
...cover all the bases: performing in front of a crowd wearing suits a la The Killers; an underwater montage, on an operating table, etc. Towards the end, there’s even a segment reminiscent of “Clueless” where they play Suck and Blow, except without a card to put in between their lips. But, by the end, it’s so hard to remember what happened that all the viewer gains—visually, at least—is Key’s spiky blond hair reverberating in their head. Director Marc Webb takes...