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Second, this change encourages Cambridge’s youth to vote before they graduate from high school, and it will help to ensure that voting becomes a habit. As some councillors expressed when they made their decision, this change will mean that more young people will vote in local elections—a critical issue in a nation where less than 30 percent of 18-24-year-olds voted in the 2000 presidential election...
Many of us may have just awakened to the stunning extent of priestly pedophilia since January, when the Boston Globe exposed the predations of John Geoghan and the habit the diocese had of systematically concealing them. But the U.S. church has known all about it--how deep sexual misconduct ran, how widespread, how frequent--at least since the first big abuse scandal broke at a Louisiana trial in 1985, when the Rev. Gilbert Gauthe was sentenced to 20 years for molesting dozens of children, who were awarded a combined $18 million in damages...
...that Harvard has made a habit of opening its outdoor season at the Texas Southern Univeristy (TSU) Relays and the Rice Bayou Classic and performed admirably on every occasion, the element of surprise should be pretty much gone...
Lowering the voting age would get young people in the habit of voting even before they leave the city, Davis said, and a 17-year-old franchise could help solve larger problems of low turnout and general voter apathy...
...It’s kind of the like the opposite of smoking,” she said. “[Voting] is a habit we want them to get into...