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...Almighty worked with the Conservation Fund to make the film carbon neutral, from the first script sessions to the ultra-light DVD packaging. (The movie bombed, but at least it made a lighter impact on the Earth when it did.) This season the action show 24 will set the standard for green production, with all-recycled scripts, biodiesel power and LED lights. (Jack Bauer will not begin chasing terrorists in an L.A. city bus, however.) Given Hollywood's penchant for copying success, if a hit like 24 goes green, expect the rest to follow...
...Moreover, they did so in unambiguous violation of Robert’s Rules of Order, the standard of parliamentary procedure in Faculty meetings. It states, “The motion to Lay on the Table…violates the rights of the minority and individual members if it is for any other purpose” than “to lay the pending question aside temporarily when something else of immediate urgency has arisen,” such as the early flight of a key participant in the assembly or the need to investigate the matter further. No immediate urgency...
...runoff voting—which has its origins in a system developed in the 1850s by Thomas Hare of England and Carl Andrae of Denmark—is advantageous because voters are free to choose more marginal candidates who may not have the strongest chance at winning. Under a standard plurality voting system, voters are often pressured to choose mainstream candidates for fear that their votes would be wasted on less viable candidates...
...argue that the war has nothing to do with municipal elections and thus the boxes should have been allowed, but that logic brings election officials into the dangerous practice of judging what messages are relevant to what elections. Eliminating political messages from polling places altogether sets a clearer standard that is less prone to selective censorship. Election officials made the right decision to protect the integrity of the election, and it is deeply unfortunate that it has been misconstrued as an attack on the American troops...
...same fate that had met a long line of Democratic insurgents - Gary Hart, Paul Tsongas, Bill Bradley and Howard Dean among them - whose promises of a new kind of politics had briefly enjoyed a vogue, only to be crushed into dust by a front-runner who was using the standard playbook...