Word: punch
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...currently features a one-two punch of semi-original, kinda-funny dramedies for viewers still nursing that Saturday night hangover. First up is Desperate Housewives at 9 p.m., a sloppy stew of Six Feet Under’s morbidity (the first episode opens with a character happily shooting herself in the head) and Sex and the City’s sassy girl talk...
...created Election Assistance Commission. The actual election commissioners, however, weren’t appointed until Dec. 2003, and there is a conspicuous lack of funding. Moreover, the technical voting problems of the Florida ballot still exist; an estimated 32 million voters in 19 states will use the ill-fated punch cards. Thus we must prepare ourselves for an encore of the notorious hanging chads. The few reforms that have been instituted are still vulnerable to litigation post-election. For example, new electronic voting equipment that resemble ATMs are supposed to be far more accurate than the old punch card...
...what is in it for the prospective member or “punch?” First, the cynical answer. Harvard’s administration is so obstinate and aggressive in its efforts to control the amount of partying on campus that being a member of a club entitles you to a building which is beyond the reach of the long arm of the Harvard University Police Department, where you can do more or less whatever you please until whenever you please—for better or for worse. It is no coincidence that most final clubs are not frantic...
...handpicked-from-retirement Army chief of staff, General Peter Schoomaker, have made clear they want no permanent increase in troops for the U.S. Army (although they have okayed a temporary 30,000 hike). They're pushing a four-pronged offensive designed to give the Army 30% more combat punch without permanently adding soldiers. They are breaking the Army into smaller, more potent units, pulling calcified forces out of cold-war strongholds like Western Europe and South Korea, and shifting military policing and other nation-building skills from the reserves to the active-duty force. They're hiring contractors to perform...
...telling this story, Stalter likes to punch up his patter with wireless-industry slang. When he talks about bringing wi-fi to an area, he says he's going to "paint it!" or "light it up!" But the reality isn't that dramatic. Though they sound like a secondary weapons system from the starship Enterprise, the phased-array antennas are actually large, featureless beige-and-gray nubbins that sit unassumingly next to AC units on rooftops. It's almost impossible to pick them out of the skyline, though there are six of them in downtown Spokane, along with 12 smaller...