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TIME: For someone who's never seen a performance of yours, it's kind of hard to visualize a guy with his laptop, inviting fans onto the stage or jumping into the crowd. Yeah [Laughs]. It's concert meets house party. For me, the people and the interactivity become the visuals. It's loosely a populist sort of idea; having a stage full of people is a lot more valuable than having a million dollars worth of lights. For people who want to come up and see me do a live collage on the laptop, they have visuals presented...
...often go out of state for school, and may therefore be less prepared when asked to vote on candidates from their home state.“A lot of people have told me when they vote and don’t know the names that it’s kind of an uncomfortable feeling,” said Nemeth, who is a second-year MBA student. “So I think having the opportunity to actually know the names of their choices will motivate more people to go out to the polls.”The current voting system...
...what had been a slow-moving ballot initiative into a white-hot controversy by issuing the most sweeping declaration of fundamental gay rights to be found in U.S. law. Not only must gays be allowed to marry, the Republican-dominated court said, but it also flatly outlawed nearly any kind of discrimination against them...
...Those kinds of victories are far more likely in the near term than any kind of wholesale reversal of fortune at the ballot boxes, says Kristina Wilfore, executive director of the Washington-based Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, an advocacy organization that specializes in using ballot initiatives to further liberal causes. Wilfore says her group picks its battles in fighting anti-gay-marriage amendments largely because most votes aren't even close. "We would never bring gay marriage up before the voters," she says. "This is [our opponents'] strategy." She admits they've been terribly good...
Both Afghan police and Western observers describe a kind of pyramid scheme of corruption that goes to the top of the Afghan government. "It's like a feudal system," says Captain David Panian, a U.S. reservist now training Afghan Police in Western Afghanistan. "The baron pays the count, the count pays the duke, the duke pays the king. So if you are Joe Chief of Bala Beluk, in order to maintain your job you have to give X amount to the provincial guy, and he has got to give it to the regional...