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...midterm elections should have been a wake-up call for Republicans. Conservatives showed up in the usual numbers to vote for the GOP. But some Republican-leaning independents switched sides, and the Democrats got 57% of all independents. If Republicans don't win some of them back, the GOP is headed for a long spell in the minority...
...percent). (China hasn’t had comparable elections.) Americans in this age group, aptly dubbed “Generation Quiet” by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, vote less than any other age group in the States. According to the web site civicyouth.org, in the 2006 midterm elections, while 52 percent of the adults 30 and over voted, only 22 percent of voters age 18 to 29 did. Now that’s something to be embarrassed about...
After the year’s first snowfall, Woo had to choose whether to tear herself from preparing for a Social Analysis 10 midterm to play outside with her daughter who wanted to build a snowman, or disappoint her. She went outside...
...parties, extracurricular transfers of power, and epidemic influenza. With all this on-campus excitement, and the promise of home looming, who can think about school right now? There is so much on our minds right now that it would be all too easy to completely forget about that last midterm. Hopefully our TFs also share in our seasonal charity and goodwill, but I wouldn’t count on it. This is why Harvard’s idiosyncratic calendar is a good thing, and why students will come to miss January finals when they eventually disappear. In addition to making...
...with the flagrant paper-wasting tactics of UC campaigns? Feel like exiting the Science Center has turned into a maze which you must navigate your way in and out of the crowd to avoid groups of shouting supporters? Bothered by candidates knocking on your door in the midst of midterm studying? If you need a break from the UC elections, check out “Man of the Year,” a dark comedy that explores what happens when a political satirist runs for the presidency as a joke—and wins. Starring Robin Williams, the film features...