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...haven’t seen anyone print, but the last time I checked we had 15 uses,” said ITS support staff member Fegens Alexis. Brainard said that the pilot program was set up in order to work out the details of the service on a smaller scale before making it available in other libraries. The price of printing, for example, was listed online at seven cents per page for the last week. But when librarians were notified that it costs five cents per page to print at the Science Center, the price of printing in Lamont...
Jarret A. Zafran ’09, president of the Dems, said that though his club is no longer “devoted to one particular goal, which is an election,” its members will continue to push for more progressive politics on a national scale...
...After Prop 2 in California, what's next on your agenda? We're out to eliminate cock fighting and dog fighting. We are trying to stop the Canadian seal hunts and other large-scale commercial killing of marine mammals. We are trying to shut down canned hunts, where people shoot animals in fenced enclosures for a fee and a guaranteed kill arrangement. We are working toward eliminating euthanasia of dogs and cats in shelters and animal control agencies...
...Exit polling - surveying people leaving voting locations about the ballots they cast - debuted in the 1960s, as news organizations (and on a small scale, candidates) sought to gather demographic data about voters that could be used to predict election results. Legendary polling pioneer Warren Mitofsky conducted the first major exit poll for a network during the 1967 Kentucky governor's race and by the 1970s, exit polling had become an industry practice. But in 1980, NBC reported Ronald Reagan's 1980 victory over Jimmy Carter nearly three hours before polls closed on the West Coast, leading to a large-scale...
...Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 was forced to announce more than $1 billion in budget cuts, affecting towns and cities across the Commonwealth. As Patrick recently said, “This is not about cutting so-called fat. This is going to cut muscle, because the scale of the issue requires that.” The rash of budget cuts facing successful programs is unfortunate, but understandable. In hard times, sacrifices must be made, and there is no painless way to eliminate funding for vital state services. But what is completely incomprehensible is that, in this climate...