Word: plaines
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...person is free to think about any religion as he will and to communicate his thoughts freely. Golding reasons that a person may communicate his feelings about a religion by voting against an adherent of a religion which the voter holds to be erroneous or unhealthy or just plain wrong. Yet Golding’s argument jars common sense. The wise voter must consider the candidate as an individual and with specific regard to public issues. Secondly, there are immense differences in individual beliefs among adherents of any religion, and to exclude any person on the general basis...
...year now, the Du Bois Institute has explored black history and culture in new digs at 104 Mt. Auburn St.—a plain office building a few doors down from Peet’s Coffee—occupying floors...
...fervently attacks the claim that morality is rooted in religious scripture: “To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird…the legend of the animals going into the ark two by two is charming, but the moral of the story of Noah is appalling. God took a dim view of humans, so he (with the exception of one family) drowned the lot of them including children?...
...that way. When that many people collide with that many high-tech devices, there are going to be problems. Some will be machine malfunctions. Some could come from sabotage by poll workers or voters themselves. But in a venture this large, trouble is most likely to come from just plain human error, a fact often overlooked in an environment as charged and conspiratorial as America is in today. Four years after Congress passed a law requiring every state to vote by a method more reliable than the punch-card system that paralyzed Florida and the nation...
...have caught the problem in the pre-election test runs. "It was human error both on their end and my end," she notes. Not every county will have an auditor as sharp-eyed as Drake--or an outcome as transparently false as the one she uncovered. "We were just plain lucky," she says...