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Traditionally Americans are uneager to tinker under the hood of the voting machine. There is one major recent exception, however: minority voting rights. In 1982, when it had long been obvious that white majorities throughout the country were -- legally -- freezing black minorities out of any office whatsoever, Congress revised the Voting Rights Act. Combined with related court cases, the revision compels areas with histories of discrimination to create voting districts where minorities can get elected. Almost invariably this was read as a call to carve out geographic districts where blacks, Hispanics or Native Americans were the majority...
Without question, these machines are fast. While the Power Macintosh desktop is functionally identical to that of the typical Motorola 68040-based Mac, under the hood the new series is fueled by the PowerPC 601. This is a RISC (reduced instruction set computing) microprocessor that claims to yield "two to four times the performance of today's Intel 1486 and Motorola 680x0-based personal computers," according to an Apple press release...
Still, make sure you make it in to the dressing room: once there, surrounded by half-dressed men or women (depending on the room you choose), you will be enveloped by a sense of brother- or-sister-hood...
...said confidently, "I never ever check my car before I go driving. I am sure that there won't be any problems." In movies, when someone says this, there is always a problem. Usually the car is ends up in the middle of nowhere with smoke coming from the hood. Well, that's exactly what happened. Sure enough, as soon as we passed Albany, we started to hear a very faint buzzing sound on the car, and the red emergency light flashed on the dashboard. When we neared the Canadian border, this faint became a loud drumming sound, So about...
Stevenson's debutante-hood was pre-ordained. "I came out at the Jackson Debutante Club in Jackson, Mississippi. My mother came out there, my grandmother, my aunt and my sister. I never thought of not doing...