Word: michigan
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Twenty-one years ago, before Jennifer M. Granholm became governor of Michigan, she and a group of fellow Harvard Law School (HLS) students joined an undergraduate protest against the Harvard Corporation’s financial connections to apartheid South Africa...
...Fight Over Affirmative Action in Michigan The man behind the California racial preference ban is back at it again, this time in Michigan, where his ballot initiative could prevail over a strong, organized opposition
...whether to make the possession of up to an ounce of marijuana legal, while those in South Dakota vote on whether pot should be legalized for medical purposes. Georgians may choose to amend their constitution to require that the state preserve its "tradition of fishing and hunting." And in Michigan, embroiled in controversy over the 2004 lifting of a 99-year ban on the hunting of mourning doves, voters get a shot at reinstating it. The reputedly monogamous dove is, by resolution of the legislature, the state "Bird of Peace...
...likely to draw the attention of poll workers. But in two others, they were able to quickly infect the device with a standard memory-access card in which they had installed a preprogrammed chip. Other computer scientists have also breached electronic voting machines. Congressman Vernon Ehlers, a Michigan Republican who has been holding hearings this fall, says manufacturers "have produced machines that are very vulnerable, not very reliable and I suspect fairly easy to hack...
...made this declaration than Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki virtually dismissed it. Not only did he reject the notion of timelines, but he scolded the U.S. for attacking commanders of the Shi'ite Mahdi Army in Baghdad. TIME.com asked Professor Juan Cole of the University of Michigan, one of America's foremost experts on Shi'ite politics and culture in Iran and beyond, to explain why Maliki and the U.S. can't seem to stay on the same page...