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Geographic sprawl and an outdated balloting system make the Philippines susceptible to vote fixing. Of the 90,000 polling stations located on more than 7,000 islands, only a handful have votes tabulated by computer. The majority use paper ballots, manual counting, chalkboard addition and telephone or telex messages to relay the results...
...this mortal coil." After years of stiff formality, he yearns for simple verities, and talked longingly about the rewards of working with his hands on a farm in Cornwall. "I think it's terribly therapeutic, funnily enough, and there's something very important about working on land and actual manual labor, mucking out cattle yards, you know, and things like that." But Charles is also hardheaded: using innovative agricultural practices and more rigorous management, he has increased profits from his patrimony, the Duchy of Cornwall, his major source of income...
...Pornography is used as a recipe for gang and other types of rape, a how-to manual," Dworkin said. "We have empirical proof, real proof--the victims--that pornography creates hostility against women and causes physical abuse...
Such disclosures are often called leaks, but to a Government plagued by spy scandals, Morison's action was a crime. The Reagan Administration used the Espionage Act of 1917 to charge its employee with spying. Although the Soviet Union had already obtained a stolen manual for the KH-11 satellite, prosecutors claimed that publication of the pictures gave the Soviets valuable information about the satellite's performance. Last week a federal jury in Baltimore convicted Morison on two counts of espionage and two counts of theft of Government property. Morison, 40, grandson of the late naval historian Samuel Eliot Morison...
Marking papers "is one of the most significant parts of a student's education. If we take teaching seriously, we must take marking papers seriously," Marius wrote in his grader's manual...