Word: shelleys
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...voting is "a rickety system with poor federal and state oversight," says Kim Alexander, president of the nonpartisan California Voter Foundation. "It has produced an endless stream of bad news." In the most dramatic move against the controversial systems, a state advisory panel urged California secretary of state Kevin Shelley to prohibit the use in this fall's election of 16,000 evoting machines that four counties purchased from Ohio manufacturer Diebold Inc. at a cost of $45 million. Shelley is considering a statewide ban, as is the legislature...
California's bad experiences in the March primaries and in last year's gubernatorial recall election are what led secretary of state Shelley to distrust e-voting. In March more than a third of the precincts in San Diego County opened late because the new machines didn't fire up properly, leading many voters to leave in disgust. A study by Diebold of problems with its equipment in Alameda County found that 186 of the 763 encoders used to program the smart cards had failed. As a result of those foul-ups, thousands of voters were disenfranchised...
Since you brought up how much you loved Kingsley, let’s commiserate: why can’t the Oscars be in the business of honoring quality and quality alone? This is an organization that never gave an Oscar to Richard Burton but gave two to Shelley Winters (zero would have been too many). It hasn’t gotten the Best Picture award right in over a decade. It’s seen fit to honor hacks and one-hit wonders galore, but has never gotten around to giving a nomination to Donald Sutherland. Ian Holm wasn?...
...intrigue, spectacular battling, tired corruption parable and bad Jim Henson movie—I’d expect that the Oscars will get it wrong once again. And don’t get me started on Gollum, who’s so annoying that if he went up against Shelley Winters in a “Celebrity Deathmatch,” I’d root for Shelley...
Cellar Door’s not-quite-emo won’t be a problem for everyone—Vanderslice is the kind of guy who makes every mopey English concentrator’s day by adapting Shelley for his lyrics, rediscovering British Romantics as proto-Obersts. But as perfectly-crafted as each individual song is, listening to the full album makes you want to remind Vanderslice not to forget to be cool, in that distant, disaffected sense of the word. Sometimes caring too much is a bad thing...