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...Arlington County, Va., training session for poll workers on Halloween, the 60 people who showed up were handed a 109-page manual and asked to take a seat. The crowd included a middle-aged man in a business suit, an elderly woman walking with a cane, a mother and son, and a woman wearing a sexy-maid costume...
...Cope with threats of violence. "If a bomb threat is phoned in, get as much information from the caller as possible," the manual directs. "If someone is known to have a weapon, have at least two election officers approach the individual together and simply ask him to leave the weapon outside...
...into sectarian civil war? Cautious optimists hope so. "Iraq is well on its way to becoming a normal Middle Eastern country, with all the good and the bad that that implies," says John Nagl, a retired Army officer who helped General David Petraeus draft the Army's new counterinsurgency manual. "As long as Iraq stays Page 26 news, that's O.K." But if anything goes wrong, it's going to be tough to handle. "We put ourselves in the position of fighting two wars simultaneously, and that's leading to competing demands for scarce resources," says Nagl...
...time I’d signed away my summer I was already playing the fond memories in my head: IceScapes would be all fun, friendship, and frozen treats.Unfortunately, what were originally sources of excitement soon turned sour. I learned that there were no qualifications because I was relegated to manual labor: whether I was churning the italian ice every fifteen minutes, tackling a never-ending pile of dishes, or furiously scrubbing all manner of surfaces, I was always occupied by a paranoid and micromanaging Ron, who seemed to be perennially watching me for the slightest mistake. I also discovered that...
...slogan “women deserve better choices than abortion” inundates the FFL’s Web site, along with an exhortation to pregnant women: “Abortion is not the only way out: you have choices.” The latter statement links to a manual describing how to legally force the biological father into fulfilling his child support duties, and how to utilize financial assistance programs such as Medicaid and subsidized housing. These proposed solutions fail to seriously address the root economic and social reasons that lead women to seek abortions. Advising an impoverished teenage...