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...demographic nevertheless continues to bring the smallest percentage of eligible voters to the polls, and the question of whether the youth will have any significant affect on elections is as old as the 26th Amendment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Day Dispatches: It's Morning for the Kenyan Obamas | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

...offensive line dominated the line of scrimmage, pushing around a diminutive defensive line whose heaviest player weighed 250 pounds, a full 25 pounds lighter than the Crimson’s smallest lineman...

Author: By Kevin T. Chen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: It’s Easy Beating Green | 11/2/2008 | See Source »

...tenure of a given dean, then a current dean will likely consult her on that issue.The directors of various offices and centers focused on tenure, research, and faculty recruitment also need to be consulted if the office would be impacted or have its domain diminished by even the smallest change in policy proposed by the bill. Few things halt change as effectively as a senior member of the University or faculty protesting after not having been consulted in a preliminary discussion.Next, the bill enters the official discussion mechanism of the University: the committee. In almost all cases, there is significant...

Author: By Matthew L. Sundquist | Title: University Hall Rock | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

...Meanwhile, the no-drama Obama campaign has deployed Biden to the smallest hardscrabble corners of America's swing states, where he makes common cause by invoking his own working-class roots in Scranton, Pa. He speaks of his father, who told Biden to always get up when he got knocked down. He says he wishes his mother could be there to say, "God bless ya." Biden even invokes his 10-year-old granddaughter Finnegan, whose favorite expression - "Hellooo?" - sums up Biden's reaction to the efforts of his "old dear friend" McCain to distance himself from George W. Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hidin' Biden: Reining In a Voluble No. 2 | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

...think, if anything, just the meticulous nature of engineering goes hand-in-hand with what I do. I use a calculator to make sure things fall on a rhythmic pattern that is informed by math. My work has always involved sitting down at a computer and focusing on the smallest detail and working on tiny little things for hours at a time that eventually go toward a bigger picture. And that's kind of how I approach my music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girl Talk | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

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