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...most glaring problems come from lack of preparation. Segal fears not much has changed since his experience as a freshman at Kenyon College in 2004, during the closely contested Ohio race. He manned the 10-hour polling lines on campus, dispensing water, pizza and umbrellas to the stalwarts who stuck around in the rain to cast their votes. To him, the inadequate planning was obvious: registration had surged since 2000, he notes, but the campus precinct had been allocated no additional voting machines. That left two machines for 1,300 voters. "The media angle was, Aren't these young kids...
...Barack's time in the Illinois State Senate, when he would spend much time away from the family in Chicago: "Her displeasure - or simply loneliness - was not something he took lightly, but it didn't keep him from doing what he wanted to do...Barack would sometimes get stuck in Springfield during extended sessions, and when his staff would call Michelle to ask her to fill in for him at an event, she would do it if it worked into her schedule, but felt free to decline if it didn...
Kent County Council, controlled by the opposition Conservatives, tops the list of local government bodies looking to retrieve investments in Iceland: $85 million of its total budget of $4.42 billion is stuck in Icelandic accounts. Nick Chard, the council's cabinet member for finance, says he and his colleagues chose its banks in line with government rules about spreading risk by placing deposits with a range of institutions. Those rules also stipulate that councils should try to obtain as high a return as possible and should always check the credit ratings of the institutions. "At the time of making...
...always makes me so upset. I love Henry James, but at the same time you want to take his characters by the shoulders and shake them and say, “Wake up!” THC: Is there anything that someone said to you about writing that really stuck with you all these years?MR: [James Allen McPherson, who teaches at the University of Iowa,] was the first person who really pushed me to think about not just how you write, or the elements of creative writing, but also why you do it. What are you trying to accomplish...
Dorothy’s red heels click incessantly on the screen. They close and open again and again but Dorothy doesn’t budge. But these heels are not going to bring anybody back to Oz—they’re stuck in a continuous loop. No, you’re not witnessing the result of a bad download; you’re watching “Lossless #1,” the first piece in the fall exhibition Lossless at the Carpenter Center’s Sert Gallery. Lossless is a collection of five deconstructed and digitally...