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Despite this, I never for a moment imagined the regime would fix the vote. Others were less sanguine. The thousands of Iranians who were following the run-up to the vote on Facebook fretted about whether the vote would be clean. Each day brought with it a panicked spread of messages about anticipated vote-tampering: take your own pen to the ballot box, Ahmadinejad's supporters are spreading pens whose ink will evaporate after a few hours; don't listen to anyone who tells you that supporters of Mir-Hossein Mousavi are supposed to vote at schools...
...will not welcome, what I will not accept, is endless delay or a denial that reform needs to happen." As Obama's comments suggested, he is leaving it to the lawmakers, the lobbyists and the interest groups back in Washington to work out the gritty details of how to "fix what's broken" and "build on what works." His job, as he sees it, is to "make the case," said White House spokeswoman Linda Douglass. (Read about the five big health-care dilemmas...
...begins. "No company wants to go through this ..." If starting with contrition is an attention grabber, especially for a chest-thumping car company, even more so are the images that flash across the screen as the ad turns to its next theme: "Reinvention is the only way we can fix this, and fix it we will," the narrator intones over footage of people streaming out of public transport, a runner with a prosthetic leg, a hockey player felled in the agony of defeat. Finally the spot urges viewers to just get past it - essentially calling a massive corporate mulligan...
...Techie language aside, that explanation is problematic. The pop-up window I saw asked, "Are you sure you want to invite all your contacts?" That warning was perfectly understandable to me, and likely to 95% of the people who got tricked. The answer is no. The "fix" is that the new window asks, "Do you really want to send e-mail invites with these photos to all ___ of your contacts," with the blank representing the number of addresses on your list. Sure, it's clearer, but it wasn't the warning that caused confusion. What's irritating is that despite...
...says Bulova. "You don't adopt a new plan and, boom, there's a new city. This transformation will happen over 30, 40, 50 years." After all, it took developers 45 years to make Tysons this big of a mess. It's going to take them some time to fix...