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So what happened between the governor's election and the defeat of the lottery referendum? "The lottery idea was very popular initially," says TIME Montgomery bureau correspondent Ralph Holmes. "But in the past couple of months you?ve had every minister in every pulpit preaching against the lottery, warning that...
There must be a solution besides branding and banishment; such absolutes are ridiculous in a peaceful community. Might we suggest a few more moderate solutions of a coordinated interhouse system. Interhouse dining bans could be rotated on a regular schedule. Dining Services should coordinate a system wherein convenient dining halls...
The Undergraduate Council election was a momentous occasion for only one reason: it didn't matter at all to most students. Only 23 percent of students bothered to vote, but that includes 700 first-years who, God bless them, didn't know any better. The vast majority (84 percent) of...
The Yueyang labor camp is a large commune on the edge of Dongting Lake. It is still in use today, although most of the political prisoners have been replaced by common criminals. "We slept in a dormitory, 10 to a room." Communist orthodoxy ruled. When one of the cadre's...
I've worked in the motion-picture industry for 16 years, but I can't go to the movies anymore [BUSINESS, Sept. 13]. It's not just that the product is mostly crap and the price of tickets ridiculous. It's that the experience of actually being in a movie...