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...Kimberlin has found a home in the blogosphere, digging up and disseminating an indiscriminate gush of anti-e-voting material. In turn, a loose network of lawyers, congressional staff members and academics have filtered that torrent, verifying and using parts of it for their cause, many of them without knowing Kimberlin's background. Most notably, he played a key, behind-the-scenes role in a Princeton study issued last September that Norm Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute says "caused a significant alteration in the debate" over e-voting. The office of Rush Holt, the leading congressional advocate of reform...
...boom. The institutions were seeking an edge. They didn't get much of one for long: the industry's last year of 20%-plus returns was 2003, according to Hedge Fund Research, and since then funds have on average returned an unflashy 9% a year, partly because the torrent of new money makes markets more efficient...
...best measure of the speed of Vietnam's transformation is on the streets of Hanoi. Just 15 years ago, the city's roads were silent save for the swish of bicycle wheels. Now, a journey across town requires navigating a roaring torrent of motorbikes that demand quick reflexes and constant adjustments to dodge teens steering with one hand while chatting on a cell phone held in the other. Stop signs are viewed merely as suggestions, and there are no lanes so much as threads of traffic - and even then, drivers tend to make sharp turns without even a glance behind...
...course, there's the money. Like a growing number of poker-playing kids, Jeff got heavily involved in Internet gambling when he went to college. Online poker, with the potential to play many tables at once and the possibility of quickly losing your entire year's tuition in a torrent of bad-luck bits and bytes, can cut both ways. It provides the same emphasis on logic and calculation but lacks the social controls of face-to-face games with friends. It can swallow players up, as in the infamous case of the Lehigh University student who robbed a bank...
...South Asians have quadrupled nationwide since Sept. 11, according to the FBI. And that violence has recently reared its head on campus, from last November’s assault on Huma Farid ’06 to an April harassment of an anonymous South Asian student amid a torrent of racial slurs. This violence strikes at the very heart of the freedom and the security essential for any educational institution worthy of its name. And it goes to show how vulnerable this campus really...