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Members on the election commission this year have all but pledged to enforce campaign rules with stringent fervor. It is about time. Campaign rules--which impose spending caps, regulate donations and designate appropriate postering techniques--ensure that candidates are granted equal opportunity. The actions of last year's commission, which haphazardly conducted investigations of alleged violations and arbitrarily made rulings, were inexcusable. For this year's commission to make good on its promise, it must be prepared to actively and thoroughly investigate any allegations of rules violations, no matter how unpleasant or unpopular...
...Gore campaign will challenge the Palm Beach board's recounting method in court today, complaining they used too stringent a standard to determine which votes were valid...
...center cannot hold. A computer expert tells me the punchcards cannot hold. The cards are "prepunched" at the factory that makes them - that is, scored in dozens of places with tiny blades to make it possible for the voter to push them through with relative ease. Even the most stringent quality control at the punchcard factory, the expert says, cannot prepare the much-bladed punchcards to survive all the manipulation they are getting...
...Fortunately, a flip through the most recent Common Casting booklet shows that the Harvard theater community is still far from becoming as stringent or complacent as this article may make it sound. From two productions of lesser-known Shakespeare plays--Timon of Athens and Cymbeline--to a four-person Taming of the Shrew to a multimedia Agamemnon, there's still a fair amount of unusual work going up this semester...
...teacher bonuses to the results of one stressful afternoon darkening ovals with a no. 2 pencil, some parents have begun a backlash. Many are keeping their kids home on test days and staging noisy, headline-grabbing rallies in protest. In response, some states have backpedaled from the most stringent testing policies, often decreasing the weight placed on exams or rolling back the year in which they take full effect...