Word: prefered
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Like Jews at a baptism, Gadfly had to ask the person next to us what exactly was going down in the water. Turns out the Northeast’s best and brightest prefer to settle their collegiate rivalries by imitating the slave galley on a Roman warship...
...popcorn chicken! Get in my belly!” exclaims Laura G. Brent ’08. However, she adds, “As ‘yay’ as popcorn chicken is, I would prefer healthy food...
...ones that are counted. A simpler way of doing this, of course, would have been to buy optical-scanning machines - which comply with HAVA standards, reduce the number of machines required, and already produce the contemporaneous, human-readable physical ballot necessary for true voting security. For those who prefer things truly paper-free: require open source code in any voting machine, and print out a final receipt at the end of the day. This would require no adjustments to existing machines whatsoever. It would simply require that a company like Diebold publish its code...
...Office's comedy of quiet desperation will probably need tweaking for America, where we prefer noisier desperation in our workplace satire. (A sublime example of that style is the movie Office Space, from Daniels' Hill co-producer Mike Judge.) But The Office finale isn't a downer; it offers the characters some hope and a chance at redemption--even David. At one point he shows up at Wernham Hogg, asking his ex-employees to go out for a drink--begging, really--in the mistaken belief that they love him. Only Tim accepts, to break the awkwardness--but also, perhaps, because...
...Voters prefer Bush over his opponent for handling Iraq and the war on terrorism, but they favor Kerry when it comes to health care, the economy and understanding the needs of people like themselves. And in a surprising departure from earlier survey findings, the gender gap has disappeared, at least for now. In the two nights just after the final debate, male and female voters showed almost identical preferences: women favored Kerry over Bush 46% to 45%, while men preferred Bush to Kerry...