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Other candidates on the Kerry short-list compiled by The Times and The Post were Kathleen M. Sullivan, former dean of Stanford Law School; Sonia Sotomayor, a federal appeals court judge in New York; and David S. Tatel and Merrick Garland, both federal appeals court judges in Washington...
...will be using the punch-card ballots that caused such havoc in Florida in 2000. But the lack of transparency in electronic voting may be particularly problematic. "The reason people trust elections is that they can see what's going on," says David Dill, a computer-science professor at Stanford University and founder of the Verified Voting Foundation. "With electronic voting, the handling of the ballots, putting ballots in the ballot box and counting of votes--all of that is hidden inside computers where nobody can see what's happening. [That] leaves you really at the mercy of the machine...
...prolong life? That tantalizing prospect was raised in 1989 with the publication of a smaller study of women with advanced breast cancer by Stanford University's David Spiegel, who found that participants who'd received SEGT lived an average 17 months longer than those in the control group. The implications seemed enormous: if psychological intervention could help people with advanced cancer, what might it do for those in the early stages of the disease? Alas, while several replication trials have since supported Spiegel's findings, an equal number have done the opposite. Kissane, along with the Thursday Girls' current therapists...
...half times as many newspaper headlines as that of rival Yale, and nearly five times more than Princeton’s moniker. In a 2003 Gallup poll, more than twice as many Americans thought that Harvard was the nation’s best college as thought the same of Stanford and Yale, the next highest schools. Whether or not this reputation is deserved, it is next to impossible to live in this country and never encounter Harvard, in name or reputation...
Payne, who graduated from Stanford, was simultaneously accepted by Columbia's journalism school and UCLA'S film program and only narrowly chose filmmaking over being a foreign correspondent. "They both use the self as a filter to show what is going on in the world," he says. He scored a writing-directing deal from Universal shortly after graduating in 1990, and promptly spent five grand of his paycheck on late-'80s Bordeaux. "I was overeager, like most tyros are," he says...