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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...
...friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properly pulled her chair away. At that moment I asked her a question and she sat down again, except there was no chair. Everyone, including the Queen, laughed and laughed--and of course she reassured the terrified footman he had done nothing wrong. Once when she was on a walkabout in Scotland, someone said to her, "You look just like the Queen!" She replied, "How reassuring...
...have dropped out are, for the most part, struggling. A couple of them got their GED and are working in factories, but others are shuffling through menial jobs--one works at the car wash, another is washing dishes. A few, says Shawn, aren't doing much of anything except playing video games at their parents' houses. But Shawn says he is serious about not becoming a part of their dropout nation. "I've already went and put 12 years into this thing," he says. "There's no use throwing it all away...
...where the NO VACANCY sign has been up all season. The off-Broadway musical Grey Gardens--based on the 1975 film documentary about two nutty relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and featuring a Tony-worthy performance by Christine Ebersole--might have been the best Broadway musical of the season. Except that it can't move to Broadway, because all the theaters are filled...
...Field. It was the eighth consecutive time Cornell (7-1, 2-1 Ivy) had beaten Harvard, putting the Big Red back on track for a repeat conference title after its first loss of the season last week. “They’re consistently a good shooting team, except for last week against Penn,” Harvard coach Scott Anderson said. “They had an awful lot of possessions and we didn’t pick up the ball, we didn’t clear the ball efficiently, and we didn’t look...