Word: fixes
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...Moore suggests a busy agenda for a Democratic President's first 10 days, including drafting rich kids to fight our wars, defeating al-Qaeda by digging water wells around the world, banning high-fructose corn syrup and making HBO free for everyone. He proposes six ways to fix elections - I mean, make the process work. (Oddly, these don't include putting elections for the presidency, the Senate and the House under federal aegis.) He argues that Bush and Cheney should be not impeached but arrested - make them do a perp walk. He picks 12 Senate seats and 30 House seats...
...Unseal voting machines. Boot up electronic voting machines and print out receipts to certify that no votes have yet been cast. Fix printer jams. Set up privacy screens for paper ballots...
...obesity epidemic, government officials should address Japan’s specific concerns. High smoking rates (among the highest of the developed nations) are infinitely more pressing than obesity. Ditto for stomach cancer (start a campaign against pickled foods! They’re the proven culprits). Japan, stop trying to fix your cuts with America’s casts. Maybe the cast will stop the bleeding, but a band-aid is all you need.—Columnist Rebecca A. Cooper can be reached at cooper3@fas.harvard.edu...
...midday tropical sun during a two-hour wait this week outside the library. "This one's too important not to make sure my vote gets counted right. So I'm taking my day off today to do this now, not on Election Day, when it's too late to fix things...
...This year Florida Republicans are probably worrying that it's too late to fix things, and much of that angst stems from early voting. Many of them, in fact, may be wondering what the GOP-controlled legislature was thinking in 2002 when it approved the practice. The answer is that it had to do something in response to the presidential-vote-recount debacle that embarrassed the state in 2000. And early voting, which allows voters to cast ballots during the two weeks prior to Election Day at a limited number of polling sites, seemed to benefit the GOP in Florida...