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...then there are the machines. Allegheny County was the only county in the country to verify the software on a portion of its ES&S-brand iVotronic voting machines prior to this election. However, the county employed a testing firm that was suspended the next week by the federal government. Will local voting watchdogs find the malfunctions, inaccuracies or even tampering they fear in those paperless machines? And will a state Supreme Court ruling, forcing all polling places to have emergency paper ballots on hand if there are breakdowns in 50% or more of machines, help or hinder the process...
...about and kick off some nervous butterflies they have,” Harvard coach Peter Brand said. “They have more than proven themselves.” With many new faces on the team, Brand expressed a bit of worry about his women’s team prior to yesterday’s event. “We are trying to manage some of the weak spots that we have on the women’s side,” Brand said. “We had one female recruit who suddenly decided to quit and this hurts...
...fourth quarter, he gave way to sophomore Matt Simpson, whose prior experience was limited to brief action in last year’s game against Cornell. Simpson never took to the air on Saturday, but tallied 20 yards rushing. The primary reason for Simpson getting snaps was that classmate Collier Winters, who looked to be the third-string quarterback in his few appearances in his rookie campaign, got injured a couple of weeks back...
Pessimism is in vogue. As third-quarter earnings roll in, Wall Street's analysts are slashing prior estimates, predicting many dire months ahead for major American companies...
...almost whimsical sheen to each song that conceals troubling realizations—like that above—in delicate, beautiful, and strangely ambivalent sound. Three songs so much as hint at the “ambient” past of the band’s prior work—”Microcastle,” “Activa,” and “Green Jacket”—but all three are breathlessly quick compared to the hulking, self-consciously difficult pieces on “Cryptograms,” and all three...