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...even with digital help, the overseas voting process is far from flawless. The Pentagon temporarily blocked access to its voting site from 27 countries; initially it cited concern about foreign hackers, but later said it had simply forgotten to remove an older block. And American expats worldwide have complained that many U.S. states have been too slow to respond to registration applications, prompting fears that some overseas ballots won't arrive in time to be counted. Both Democrats and Republicans Abroad are busy handing out emergency federal write-in ballots to voters who haven't received their normal state ballots...
...same trap as the reader. Then comes the day he is forced by his comrades to kill. He surrenders to the police and faces the prospect of a long jail term for his crime. Then, in one of the funniest touches in Naipaul's entire oeuvre, Chandran's forgotten book of short stories is rediscovered, he is hailed as a father of modern Indian fiction and is released. Magic Seeds may have its problems?the characters think too much, and think the same things too often, and Willie lacks the complexity of a Biswas or Salim?but there is plenty...
...course, as Dillon Professor of International Affairs Jorge I. Domínguez writes, “a liberal education is what remains after you have forgotten the facts that were first learned while becoming educated.” And it is true that we are young and have lots of ground to cover. But as we speed-read our way through the semester, the acquisition of critical judgment does not always seem to be the priority. Save for the concentrated spurt of penning an essay, we do not always have the time, nor do we learn to develop the patience...
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...Forgotten has the makings of an intelligent paranoid thriller, but I found nothing spectacular or terrifying in it, only government agents scrambling to hide a conspiracy and scrambled plot lines trying to hide a lack of creativity, despite the guarantee a seemingly competent cast should offer. Julianne Moore’s Telly Paretta is a likeable everywoman. Her therapist (Gary Sinise), is appropriately authoritarian, while her husband (ER’s Anthony Edwards) appears to be phoning in his support from another planet. They are too hampered by the product they’ve been asked to deliver to hope...