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...challenges still exist. While reporting this story, I came across people on every continent but Antarctica who were frustrated. Voter outreach simply doesn't make it to everybody. Some people I spoke with were so confused by the process that they ended up not voting. An electronic voting system is in development, but Brunelli says that it may take "several years" before it can be used. Los Angeles County has a website where absentee voters can trace their ballots. The Federal Voting Overseas Program redesigned their website to ease the process and the Overseas Vote Foundation's website walks voters...
Plimpton's fame and glaring idiosyncrasies (born and raised in New York City, he spoke as if he were always dashing off to a regatta) make him the perfect subject for a code-cracking biography, the kind that lays bare the man and his motivations. George, Being George does the trick, in part by borrowing the form of Plimpton's own biographies of Capote and Edie Sedgwick (Jean Stein's Edie: American Girl, which he edited). Recognizing that Plimpton's spirit would suffocate under the weight of analytic prose, editor Nelson Aldrich Jr. interviewed more than 200 verbally dexterous Plimpton...
Grossman responded by saying that “No president takes any option off the table,” He spoke of Obama’s focus on using “every tool of diplomacy” when dealing with hostile nations. “You negotiate peace with enemies, not friends...
Kerry M. Healy ‘82, former lieutenant governor of Massachusetts and senior adviser to W. Mitt Romney’s unsuccessful presidential campaign, spoke on behalf of John McCain while Steven Grossman, former national chairman of the Democratic National Committee, represented Barack Obama on issues ranging from Iran to the domestic politics of Israel...
...smaller. Or, to put it more clearly, that once-expansive, comb-like maze filled with hidden experiments, sounds, and genres has been excavated and magnified to the point where it no longer has discernible features or points of reference. Iconic labels like SST and K Records, whose mission statement spoke fundamentally to the ethic of “Do It Yourself” and otherwise progress-in-obscurity, have been reorganized—transformed from cultural agents to cultural artifacts—in the shadows of the pseudo-indie juggernauts, Sub Pop and Matador. 2008 marks 20 years since...