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Take last month’s council elections. I was unwinding from a stressful Thursday with some friends at half past midnight, when I heard two knocks. After reluctantly opening the door, I was shocked to witness a complete stranger force her way into my room, hand out fliers, and ramble on about her platform. I went to bed thoroughly annoyed with the candidate and resolved that she had just lost my vote. But if she had given me a tub of ice cream I might have been a little more understanding...
Still, while Maher portrays himself as a man more interested in legislation than elections, he is no stranger to politics...
...programmer and I’m interested in the algorithms and math behind it,” said Zuckerberg, who is no stranger to creating computer software and programs...
...hero of Yellow Dog, such as he is, is a mild-mannered and dutiful husband named Xan Meo. For Xan, 47, a Londoner, "marriage is a sibling relationship--marked by occasional, and rather regrettable, episodes of incest." But after a mysterious stranger cracks Xan's skull in a bar fight, he changes. He becomes primitive, abusive, constantly battling volcanic surges of rage and horniness. The new Xan is a man who "seldom saw a woman of any age whose bathwater he would have declined to drink." His life becomes a struggle to hang on to the norms of civilized behavior...
...called “dark horse” in tomorrow’s city council election, DeBergalis has been no stranger this election season to Mather House—or to the Yard or MIT frats, for that matter—in pursuit of student voters, a typically-neglected segment of the electorate that he targets as his core constituency...