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However they each prefer to get their jolts, there's no evidence yet that Kerry's presidential prospects have got one from the addition of Edwards to the ticket. The latest TIME poll, conducted over the three days of media frenzy that followed the Edwards announcement, shows it did little to budge the race from the margin-of-error territory where it has been pretty much stuck since Kerry secured the nomination in March. He now leads Bush 49% to 45% among likely voters; in early June, the margin was only slightly tighter, with Bush leading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The Decision: The Gleam Team | 7/19/2004 | See Source »

Families that prefer not to pay over the internet can print out copies of tuition invoices from the internet and mail payments to the SRO, Keaney said...

Author: By Alan J. Tabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Switches to Electronic Billing | 7/16/2004 | See Source »

...with the same attention that they give to stories of neighborhood brawls or debates over political philosophy—even if tales of acids and bases aren’t quite as sexy. But if we succeed at explaining our work with clarity, we’d prefer that you don’t tune out of the conversation as soon as you hear the word “molecule...

Author: By Matthew S. Meisel, | Title: Acids, Bases and Silence | 7/9/2004 | See Source »

...equality owned slaves and, it now seems likely, had at least one child with one of them. The man who said, "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter," privately urged state officials to press seditious libel charges against editors unfriendly to his presidency. The advocate of a limited Federal Government and opponent of a permanent standing military doubled the size of the country in one stroke by making the Louisiana Purchase and went to war against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thomas Jefferson: The Philosopher-President: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Thomas Jefferson | 7/5/2004 | See Source »

...work on observing reactions via molecular beams. “But from what I’ve seen as the performance of this administration, I think it’s important that they be voted out of office...It’s no wonder that even scientists who would prefer to be nonpartisan feel that in this case it would send a valuable message to the world...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nobel Laureates Endorse Kerry Bid | 6/25/2004 | See Source »

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