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...very simple and there isn't very much red tape to it," says Mansson. Why doesn't the United States do this? "The federal government provides that states administer the elections, and the states have the procedures and legislation in place to carry out election processes," explains Polli Brunelli, director of the Federal Voting Assistance Program. "Our embassies and consulates are federal facilities, and that's where we provide information material and assistance to absentee voters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Is Voting Overseas So Difficult? | 11/1/2008 | See Source »

...eventually shot by anti-Fascist partisans and then hung by his heels alongside his mistress). When Italian newspapers questioned whether the dictator's widow really deserved more money-plus the return of three Mussolini farms that the government had confiscated-Donna Rachele retorted: "Non facciamo ridere i polli" (literally, "Let's not make the chickens laugh"-meaning "Don't be silly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 17, 1972 | 1/17/1972 | See Source »

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