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...long-term renovation of its 12 residential Colleges which has cost hundreds of millions of dollars and lasted almost 20 years. And Princeton spent $100 million constructing Whitman College, one of its six residential colleges, in 2007. One issue explored over the trip was that concerning “swing space,” the temporary residences for students who are displaced during the House renovations. Since last spring, the College has been grappling with the problem of finding suitable space in Cambridge’s crowded real estate market. “Yale built a swing House, which will...
...those new voters moving into Prince William have helped make the once reliably Republican district a swing county and the linchpin for Democratic statewide victories. The county voted 52% for President Bush in 2000 and 53% in 2004. But in 2005, Prince William residents helped elect Tim Kaine, a Democrat, governor with 50% of the ballots and the next year voted in nearly identical numbers to put Democrat Jim Webb in the Senate. "If Democrats split the vote in Prince William and win big in the northern counties, they win the state," says Mike May, a Republican Prince William County...
...number of committees are charged with providing recommendations about residential living space, House life, academic and social space, and swing spaces that will hold students while the Houses are being renovated...
...makes sense though. Amid market turmoil, job losses, a discredited Administration and foreign policy meltdown, what could be a better symbol for our depressed and divided nation? Two legendarily awful clubs from economically hurting swing states, battling it out for the championship of a past-its-prime sport while the rest of us watch football highlights. Philadelphia--my city--hasn't won a championship of any kind for 25 years, a record for a four-sport town. Tampa Bay has a shorter history of woe, but this is a city (well, technically, a body of water) whose football team...
...course, the technology can sometimes backfire. In March, more than 5,000 residents of Ohio's Cuyahoga County received robo-calls between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. because of faulty programming. That kind of mistake, as one pundit points out, could swing an election in entirely the wrong...