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...Bradley effect exists. “I’m not entirely convinced that such a discrepancy [between pre-election polls and election results] would necessarily be the result of individuals who are afraid of appearing racist,” Apfelbaum said. A co-author of the paper, Harvard Business School professor Michael I. Norton, said there is little empirical evidence for the Bradley effect, since it is based on a very small sample size of black politicians who have run for public office. “Any time you’re making conclusions about the influence...
...Hong Kong-based musician who is registered to vote in California, was still waiting for his absentee ballot to arrive in the mail on Oct. 27. "It's really sort of unfathomable that we're still plotting through this medieval paper-based way of voting that is such a nightmare," says Kai. For swing state voters, this waiting game is more agonizing. "I ordered my absentee ballot from Colorado, a swing state, months ago, and never received it," says Kristen Allen, a reporter for The Local, an online daily news website in Berlin, Germany...
...expect a do-over from the outgoing Administration, but not a paper-over that would rescue speculators. FDIC chief Sheila Bair has been pushing to use new loan-guarantee authority passed under the $700 billion banking bailout to adjust troubled homeowner mortgages. The plan would provide $50 billion from the government to be tapped as insurance for banks willing to adjust mortgages in a loss-sharing agreement. The FDIC would guarantee any losses on loans readjusted for homeowners who can show a 38% debt-to-income ratio, similar to what the FDIC worked...
...It’s a Friday afternoon and the clock reads 4 p.m. The designers are given names of famous Harvard alumni on slips of paper as inspiration for the looks they will create. Baird picks out “Ursula Le Guin...
...Ebbin, a Democrat who is now 44, was happy to oblige. (Full disclosure: in the mid-'90s, Ebbin and I knew each other briefly as colleagues; he sold ads for Washington City Paper, a weekly where I was a reporter.) Using Ebbin's expertise, the gay donors - none of whom live in Virginia - began contributing to certain candidates in the state. There were five benefactors: David Bohnett of Beverly Hills, Calif., who in 1999 sold the company he had co-founded, Geo-Cities, to Yahoo! in a deal worth $5 billion on the day it was announced; Timothy Gill...