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...clear Democratic winner by Feb. 6?and it looks increasingly likely, given that none of the Feb. 5 contests award a winner all of a state's delegates?the nomination battle could drag on through March, when Ohio and Texas hold their primaries, or even until April 22, when Pennsylvania holds its primary. And if the race is still undecided come May, the Clinton campaign will likely start petitioning the DNC to reconsider its decision to strip Michigan and Florida of its delegates. The result: a messy Democratic nomination battle that might weaken the party's eventual nominee...
...fame. "We live in a culture where if it's not documented, it doesn't exist," says Josh Gamson, a University of San Francisco professor of sociology who studies culture and mass media. "And if you don't have people asking who you are, you're nobody." University of Pennsylvania sociologist David Grazian, who wrote On the Make: The Hustle of Urban Nightlife, calls personal paparazzi reality marketers, who make the act of being photographed more meaningful than the actual photos. "The goal isn't to produce a product," he says. "It's to heighten the experience of the event...
WHAT TO THINK The town's chief of police says his officers don't surf social-networking sites. In both cases parents first pointed out the photos. But sleuths are increasingly looking at online evidence. One Vermonter received a warrant from Pennsylvania police after posting photos of herself defacing a Quaker State monument...
...Amtrak strike are more likely to be commuter rail passengers than Amtrak ones. Today, ownership and operational control of major stations are in the hands of Amtrak, despite the fact that local transportation authorities generally account for many more passengers. This holds true for South Station in Boston and Pennsylvania Station in New York. Rather than permit the Amtrak to cripple these daily commuters, operational control of big stations should be transferred from Amtrak to local transportation authorities. Why should an Amtrak strike shut down all of South Station, victimizing travelers in Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) commuter rail trains...
...provosts who wrote the letter responding to Faust’s remarks hailed from Pennsylvania State University, University of Illinois at Chicago, Indiana University at Bloomington, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, University of Minnesota, Ohio State University, Purdue University, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison...