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...Five: Toilet train. Remember how your weird cousins from Northern California used to keep a brick in their toilet tank to reduce water flow? Remember how you thought they were crazy? Well, they might have been, but they were right about conserving water. "It does help to put bricks or a quart jug filled with gravel, for example, into the toilet tank," says Swistock. "A heavy item like that displaces a quart or more of water - and that's one less quart of water the toilet needs to refill itself." Once you've mastered water displacement, try another, even more...
First, the bill bans soft-money contributions to political parties but it does not restrict soft-money from going to special interest groups such as the Sierra Club. This means that more money will now flow to these groups which have much looser contribution restrictions than political parties and which are far less accountable to voters than political campaigns and parties. The bill will forbid political organizations from airing “issue ads” for 60 days preceding elections. Presumably, this rule will effectively prevent large unions and corporations from excessively bashing those candidates who oppose their interests...
Even with all discussion of constitutionality aside, this bill is a step in the wrong direction. In attempting to regulate the flow of money into political campaigns, it will strengthen the ability of corporations, unions, and special interest groups to influence the political process while decreasing the clout of the average citizen. On top of that, it will favor incumbents at the expense of grass roots campaigns. These effects are the exact opposites of the goals of campaign finance legislation and, sadly, losses for democracy and the democratic process...
...math person, so I made a flow chart,” explains Claire V. McCusker ’04, a government concentrator in Leverett House who completed her conversion to Catholicism from atheism two days before she arrived on campus. Following intense scrutiny, reading and discussion about religion, her flow chart consisted of premises concluding that, for her, “Catholicism was true...
...scenes flow smoothly, one into another, with the actresses and the monologues complimenting each other. One of the evening’s truly remarkable gems, however, comes from the mini-play “no assistance.” Olamipe I. Okunseinde ’04, shrouded in blue, delivers the clever, empowering poem with clarity...