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While Republicans have generally been quieter in their efforts, they are primed for putting the voter rolls under a microscope. In Ohio, Republican Congressman Pat Tiberi complains that four counties have voter rolls with more names than there are voting-age residents in the county, according to the last Census. In one Ohio neighborhood, Mary Poppins, George Foreman and Michael Jordan all signed up to vote. The man who submitted their forms was allegedly paid for his efforts with crack cocaine from a woman volunteering for the N.A.A.C.P. National Voter Fund in Toledo...
...marketable product; impatience festered within the band. Wilson abandoned and disowned the album, retreating to his bed for the better part of the next decade, where he became a mess of drug addiction and obesity. The Beach Boys stumbled out with Smiley Smile, a watered-down and vastly quieter echo of Smile’s original vision. The Beatles’ release of Sgt. Pepper became a landmark event, and their status atop the rock world was secure. The Beach Boys, lost without their creative force, slipped into artistic irrelevance and nostalgia tours...
...county town's riverfront and then could reasonably expect promotion to a bigger town in his coastal province, Fujian. The county's top position was a reward to the 52-year-old cadre for exposing corruption and braving death threats in a nearby city, and now he expected a quieter time. "I really did not want to be drawn into that kind of case again," he wrote in August...
...Loker Reading Room is dedicated to study and research,” she said. “We have been able to separate the noisy, interactive services from the quieter reading rooms...
...around this latest bout of sonic curiosity. I was immediately turned off by drearily oblique opener “At Least That’s What You Said” and the whirring pomposity of “Less Than You Think.” But focusing on its quieter moments, I am pleased to find some of the higher songwriting peaks of Tweedy’s career, from the muted distress of “Wishful Thinking” to jangly Clear Channel cutdown “The Late Greats.” Unofficial concert poet laureate of Chicago...