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...organizers to most states to register voters and rebuild moribund state parties. With the help of Dean's staff, the Nebraska Democratic Party held conventions in 68 of the state's 93 counties this year, up from 36 in 2004; participants signed up to canvass and serve as precinct captains. Grant says staff members from the Democratic National Committee have worked to identify and contact potential voters in his district, a task congressional candidates in most states have to do themselves. Party officials in Idaho and Nebraska credit the communications directors they hired with Dean's funds--neither state...
...Undergraduate Council are just 1 percent higher than the odds of getting into Harvard College itself. The electoral landscape in the Yard contrasts with the terrain facing upperclassman candidates. The four freshman districts each fielded at least 19 candidates this year, with Leverett House, the next most contested precinct, putting forth a meager six. It’s not just the freshman candidates who are getting the electoral urge. First-years are also going to the polls—that is, the UC website—in greater numbers than their more grizzled elders. In 2005, turnout topped 50 percent...
...morning of September 11, 2001, I was at home. I was a detective in the narcotics division, but I'd taken the day off for the grand opening of my tattoo shop. After the second plane hit, I knew it was an attack. I drove to my precinct in Brooklyn, got dressed in my uniform, and waited for hours for a command to go down to the site...
...unfortunate coincidence that what is thought to be the world's richest trove of prehistoric rock art, an island-dotted precinct covering a 45-km radius, is also one of the hubs of Australia's resources bonanza. Liquefied-natural-gas tankers and ships loaded with iron ore leave from here on timetables set by China's seemingly endless demand. Doubling back to Karratha...
...Though they have been studied for years, the engrav-ings of the Dampier Rock Art Precinct remain a vast mystery. No one is sure what they-or the deliberately assembled piles of rocks that dot the area-signify. Aboriginal elders claim that only people from Burrup country can understand the messages their ancestors etched into the stones, and that those messages must remain secret...