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...spent the better part of an hour staring at a computer screen, trying to figure out a way to fit the words “genie,” “bottle,” and “students” across five columns before the person next to me suddenly swiveled and yelled, slightly aghast and slightly amused, “Why not just, ‘Students Unbottle Genie on Cabot Stage?’” Of course, it fit perfectly. Despite the inherent difficulties, the New York Times often adds an unnecessary constraint...
...should have my family name included in theirs? So where am I from. What was it all about.”What, indeed, was it all about? The weirdly divided subjectivity evinced by the narrator’s insistence on speaking of himself in the third person is particularly jarring when juxtaposed with the next story, “tape measure,” a first-person account of a hyperconscious tapeworm who commences his narrative from inside a toilet bowl.“Once I’d been ingested I knew what to do where I found myself...
...direction and then the other as each debate worked itself out. I felt no such agitation. I wanted to feel some of the insecurity that organizers, leaders, and everyday African-Americans experienced in the face of systematic violence and uncertainty. Maybe even feel a little uncomfortable as a white person. But I felt a little too comfortable.Have you ever seen “Hoosiers?” What about “The Mighty Ducks?” Even “Happy Gilmore?” All of these movies follow a formula. Fate sends the little guy several...
...some 1.5 million voters have been registered in Florida. While conceding that 14,000 other applicants have yet to get on the voter rolls, Hearn maintains that her main concern pertains to the potential for fraud with absentee ballots. "Our concerns lie not in the in-person voting but in the absentee voting where a person doesn't have to go to the polls," Hearn says. "Once they get registered they can vote absentee. That's extremely difficult to detect...
...Mellor, election counsel with Project Vote, has worked on the case and maintains there are enough safeguards in place to prevent someone from filling in a fake voter application and then voting - which explains the fact, he argues, that fraudulent voting has not been a problem. "If a false person submits an application for Dick Tracy, a person has to show up at the polls with Dick Tracy on the driver's license," Mellor says. "There needs to be a lot more than just filling out a fake voter application to get to vote...