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...percent to 55 percent. But under an electoral system, unlike a straight popular system, this sort of majority vote inflation has no effect on the presidential election as a whole, because electoral votes are not awarded as a proportion of the state's vote totals but in a lump-sum. The Electoral College prevents "one bad apple" from spoiling the harvest by splitting the harvest into different baskets, ensuring the integrity of the election...
...researcher in experimental medicine at a prestigious teaching hospital, whose vocation is as spiritual as it is scientific. He does not believe in playing God, nor does he, like Alec Baldwin in Malice, believe he is God. But Gideon believes he is the instrument of something greater than the sum of his MRIS and charts. "He is willing to put himself on the line personally," Braugher says. "He's not afraid to sit at the bedside, not embarrassed by death and illness. He knows that inside the ill person is the same person who was once healthy. He considers...
Ivan Frishberg, director of the higher-education project for the State Public Interest Research Group in Washington, notes that for the sum Gore proposes to spend on tax breaks for tuition, he could fully fund Pell grants to send low-income students to four years of college--and would have money left over to offer tax credits for interest paid on student loans. These measures would directly help students--who are the signatories to most college debt--rather than their parents. But politicians know that in 1996, only 30% of 18- and 19-year-olds voted, in contrast...
...Baltimore board of education, which is sending two of its members to Kenya in November to evaluate the school and recommend whether to partly fund it in the future. Annual expenses now run about $14,000 per student. Embry is asking the city to pay half that amount - a sum slightly higher than what it costs the city and state combined to educate a child in the local schools. If the board declines, Embry says, his foundation will close Baraka. If the city does make a long-term commitment, Embry says, he will look to open more such schools...
...looked around at the 11 people with whom I shared the Red Line car, I noticed men, women and children of all different shapes, sizes, and colors. Then it hit me: Like public transportation, "Millionaire" is a great social leveler, with its distinctive questions that make a life-changing sum of money winnable for most Americans. And that will be its contribution to the annals of television history and American culture...