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...your absentee, if I'm not mistaken, they have to certify on that particular absentee ballot that they are who they say they are," says Dianne Wheatley-Giliotti, president of the League of Women Voters of Florida, which is not formally involved with the suit. "To fraudulently swear you are in violation of the law - if someone willingly does this, they are subject to laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Votes Count in Florida | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...neighborhood in Baghdad. Noora, 28, misses their modest one-story home so much, she is sentimental even about its defects. "The sink in the kitchen is cracked, there are termites everywhere, and sometimes in the summer we can smell our neighbor's toilet from our living room--but I swear I would go back there this minute," she says wistfully. "If we had hope of some kind of life in Baghdad, I would walk all the way." Adnan, a physician, feels the tug of home too, but he keeps a check on his emotions. "If we had hope ..." he repeats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fleeting Success of the Surge | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...being realistic” is not something Harvard students should readily accept. “Being realistic” is a cop-out. Only by pressuring the administration to do something “unrealistic” can change actually occur. Most people here care about the UC. People swear the UC doesn’t matter, yet countless numbers of people end up writing editorials about it. We want it to make a difference. But, like the debate I moderated, these campaigns ended up being more about personal attacks than the future of our school. We found ourselves...

Author: By Derek Flanzraich | Title: Why We Didn’t Care Any More | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...They do a nice job of it, too. Their scenes with King Alonso’s servants Stefano (Jugo Kapetanovic ’07) and Trinculo (Molly O. Fitzpatrick ’11), to whom they swear an ill-fated allegiance, are very funny. Fitzpatrick, who brings a really wonderful, engaging ease to Trinculo’s drunken stumblings, is a perfect foil for Caliban’s spluttering rage. Kapetanovic does a terrific job of enjoying his new found servant(s): “Moon-calf!” he calls it/them...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Torpor Clouds a Strong ‘Tempest’ | 11/13/2007 | See Source »

...human behavior down to decimal points and margins of error. But families are a good deal sloppier than that, a mishmash of competing needs and moods and clashing emotions, better understood by the people in the thick of them than by anyone standing outside. Yet millenniums of families would swear by the power of birth order to shape the adults we eventually become. Science may yet overturn the whole theory, but for now, the smart money says otherwise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power of Birth Order | 10/17/2007 | See Source »

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