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These incidents ran the severity gamut. In Georgia, where all voting is done on touchscreen machines, voters complained of long lines due to malfunctioning machines or machines with dead batteries. There were complaints of slow machines, and machines which at first refused to accept the “smart cards” each voter used to identify themselves. Some machines crashed or went blank while they were being used...
...future and reflections of the past year. You can also sign up for our discussion list, “dems-talk” through the link on our website, www.harvarddems.com. The one demographic that moved in John Kerry’s favor this year was young people. Smart political professionals know that we are their last, best hope, not only for votes, but also ideas. Don’t let them down; join us in starting the hard work that the “Politics of the New” requires. Your future depends...
Highway Traffic Safety Administration has found that child safety restraints were critically misused in more than 70% of the studied cases. The high-tech TattleTale Smart Car Seat ($170 to $230; smartchild seat.com employs sensors to check whether the seat is installed correctly and provides verbal confirmation ("Buckle fastened, vehicle belt tight") when it is. If your little Houdini likes to unfasten a restraint now and again, you might hear, "Warning: child climbing out." The seat's batteries run for up to four years, but don't worry about remembering to change them. When they run low, the TattleTale will...
...also smart. In a study done last year, fund firm T. Rowe Price compared the return of a $10,000 investment in the S&P 500 stock-index (with dividends reinvested) to a core fixed-income portfolio (Lehman Brothers U.S. Aggregate bond index). Over the 20-year period from 1983 to 2003, both portfolios generated roughly the same amount of income. However, in terms of overall value, the stock portfolio grew to $71,800, the bond portfolio to only...
...stupid in a fun, entertaining way, such as when we delight in Seth’s popped collars and Marissa’s alcohol problem. Here on the frigid East Coast, especially at Harvard, we spend enough of our time agonizing over weighty issues and being “smart.” Let’s take a break, shall we, and revel in the fun and sun that—though fictitious, airbrushed and far too dramatic—still entertains in the way television should. That is, without forcing insecure people to undergo numerous plastic surgeries. Let?...