Word: requesters
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...turned 18 more than 10 years ago, I have voted in every presidential election. And when I moved from New York to Hong Kong at the end of August, I just assumed that I would have no problem continuing to do so. As I mailed off my absentee ballot request form in early September. I figured the absentee voting process was going to be neat and easy. Then I waited. And waited. And waited...
...favorite website, though, is Karaoke Party, based in Gothenburg, Sweden. All of its songs are free. The downside is that there are only 154 of them. (They're pretty contemporary, though, and 16 new tunes are added each week, depending on what the site's 20,000 users request.) Karaoke Party's interface is the nicest I've seen, and this site, which launched in August, does something unique: its computer scores your performance based on your talent, à la Rock Band. Co-founder Mats Fors said he and his partners cut their teeth managing websites for banks, so building...
...support industries that are in distress and that are essential to the U.S. economy," he said. On Thursday, those efforts got another boost as Governors from six states - Delaware, Kentucky, Michigan, New York, Ohio and South Dakota - submitted their own letter in support of the industry's aid request...
...wall: Royal Mail, which wants the mural removed, or the property investment firm Searchgrade, which filed papers to keep the mural, claiming it's an advertisement, according to councilor David Boothroyd, who served on the planning committee that decided the mural should go. The council denied Searchgrade's request and is working to determine the wall's true owner. If it turns out to be Searchgrade, the company may appeal the decision and, ultimately, the mural could stay. Boothroyd guesses that the process will take a few more months...
...sudden end to what had been a lurching trial: at first fast-tracked at the defense's request (featuring an ill-advised appearance on the witness stand by an impatient Stevens), the trial threatened to get bogged down in jury deliberations, particularly when a juror left for personal reasons. But a replacement juror arrived, and in less than a day there was a unanimous guilty verdict, which could - but likely won't - result in up to five years in prison for each count...