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While the team behind The Cove, the hidden-camera documentary about dolphin slaughter in Japan, was in Los Angeles last week accepting an Oscar for Best Documentary, it took a detour to help carry out another undercover sting operation - this time at a Santa Monica sushi restaurant...
...short period last semester as elections took place, the Undergraduate Council occupied the foreground of campus discussion before it inevitably faded back into its regular obscurity. The election controversy called into question the sturdiness of the UC’s electoral mechanisms when allegations over a possible vote rigging engulfed the body in a fight to regain its composure. In response, the UC’s Election Reform Task Force recently endorsed 11 recommendations meant to improve election integrity by drastically increasing ballot security and redefining the Election Commission. However, the proposed reforms are excessive, and the UC should instead...
...effort to address concerns over corruption, these changes may ultimately do little to dispel students’ worries that elections are never impervious to manipulation. So long as there are computer science wonks, accusations of hacking will inevitably resurface in future elections. Besides, it bears mentioning that the allegations last semester were proven false, making this response seem like an overreaction that could ultimately have negative consequences if trustees resign or disagree with each other as happened this fall...
...stars, in other words, were not exactly aligned for a backroom bipartisan deal. Dodd tried anyway - first with Richard Shelby, the ranking Republican on his committee, and after that crashed and burned, with Corker, a junior member of the committee who seemed more open to a compromise. Over the last several weeks, they did manage to reach agreement on some less controversial elements of reform, such as systemic risk regulation and rating agency liability, but it was never clear how they would bridge fundamental differences like the consumer agency, derivatives regulations and shareholder protections. When I spoke to Corker last...
...lost their supermajority, Democrats didn't want to repeat the ugly get-to-60 process that squeezed health care reform through the Senate. Democrats are ideologically inclined to support strict regulations; Republicans, not so much - one reason none of them voted for the reform bill that passed the House last year...