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...Whether he might vote in another precinct as well would be impossible to determine. Even more remarkable was what happened inside the voting booth. Without asking whether any voter wanted help, the election judge entered the booth with every voter and instructed him to pull the Democratic straight-party lever, breaking the state law. If the voter tarried more than 30 seconds and thus appeared to be splitting his ticket, the judge would reach inside to tap him on the shoulder or even re-enter the booth...
Steal flares from the construction site?: Several times in life you are asked to make congnitive decisions that are obviously going to determine your future identity. Stealing the flares would be the social lever that would get you in with the generally more adventuresome, definant, virlle boys -- the jocks. (Being a jock is a state of mind rather than a guage of atheletic ability.) Too chicken to take any flares, you fall into the "non-entities" who have no clique and who consequently consume their time by reading which they have been told to do. As it happens, the importance...
...industrial complex, and the problems of the cities. Ultimately, the Ripon people and the Republican liberals whom they represent may encounter once again the fundamental problem facing men who enter politics armed only with ideas and a non-pluralist ethic of public service: they just can't find a lever on power...
...officials moaned at a news conference two days later, would "paralyze all school desegregation." While the laws and the court decisions requiring desegregation would stay on the books, the provision would strip the federal government of its most potent weapon: the use of federal funds as a lever to force integration...
When the committee eventually makes its recommendations, the mayor will still have a hard time pushing them through Boston's obstinate School Committee. The mayor's only direct lever in school affairs is his power to veto increases in the School budget each year. That is hardly a sufficient weapon to convince the School Committee to approve broad-reaching reforms. The mayor is counting therefore on using indirect political pressure on the Committee. Any proposal, of course, will have his authority behind it. It will also be backed by the authority of the six-man committee--a group whose members...