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...crucial clauses. First, they ruled that the prohibition on unlimited donations to political parties, known as soft money, violated the First Amendment. The provision would have allowed for some “party building” activities while ensuring that soft money does not remain a back door method for the indirect funding of candidates. Soft money donations began in the 1970s as a way for parties to finance encouraging participation in the political process. But parties now spend the cash largely on attack ads that increase voter cynicism and provide little useful information about candidates. Even worse, many large...
...distribution of 200 tickets for a Red Sox-Yankees game. Last week, the class committee awarded tickets to the first 200 students to dispatch e-mails requesting them. Whether or not allegations of favoritism and time-stamp tampering are true, they reveal seniors’ unhappiness with this method of distributing tickets. A more conventional lottery of interested seniors for the limited number of tickets would have been much fairer for all students and could have alleviated any concerns of impropriety...
...obtained. Stamped "For Internal Party Use Only" and purportedly distributed to senior Party officials late last year, the document asserts that the U.S., South Korea and Japan are besieging the North with pornographic videos, Hollywood movies and racy South Korean TV dramas. This, it warns, is "the underhanded method the imperialists employ along with military force to subvert and conquer a country...
...Mailer and Truman Capote, Lévy blurs the line between fact and fiction, as he did with his 1988 book The Last Days of Charles Baudelaire. "Facts when facts are known, or it is possible to know them; imagination when facts are not available," he says of his method. Lévy says he only resorted to pure conjecture two or three times in the book, but it is up to the reader to discern those moments. His harrowing account of Pearl's decapitation by a Yemeni henchman includes unknowable embellishments: "As the Yemeni killer grabs and tears...
Creating a private scene at a Tommy’s Convenience or 7-11 post-2 a.m. is an undervalued method of sneaking up on “crab-cakes,” and by “crab-cakes” I mean the “melon center.” All the most intriguing honeys respect independence, and nothing says independence like roasting a Go-Go Beef Taquito by your lonesome on a Wednesday night. Set-up shop at the coffee-maker, slurp down Cup-a-Noodle after Cup-a-Noodle, start every sentence with...