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...ghost of J.F.K.? Yes, this is an update of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with Kennedy as Marley's Ghost. George S. Patton (Kelsey Grammer) is the Ghost of America Past, George Washington (Jon Voight) the Ghost of America Present, and an Angel of Death (Trace Adkins) points Malone to the future. From these wraiths we learn that pacifists like Malone would have been responsible for the continuation of slavery into the 21st century (because they opposed the Civil War) and for the Holocaust (you know why). A flashback to 1938 shows Neville Chamberlain signing the nonaggression pact with Hitler, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Michael Moore Doing This Election? | 11/3/2008 | See Source »

Though CFL bulbs expend only one-fourth the energy of their incandescent counterparts, they also contain trace amounts of toxic mercury. According to Wofsy, the 5 milligrams of mercury per bulb “doesn’t sound like much, but it adds...

Author: By Liyun Jin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Shedding Light on CFL Usage | 11/2/2008 | See Source »

...everybody. Some people I spoke with were so confused by the process that they ended up not voting. An electronic voting system is in development, but Brunelli says that it may take "several years" before it can be used. Los Angeles County has a website where absentee voters can trace their ballots. The Federal Voting Overseas Program redesigned their website to ease the process and the Overseas Vote Foundation's website walks voters through the application process. But that's not enough to clear up the confusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Is Voting Overseas So Difficult? | 11/1/2008 | See Source »

...back to a time most people probably have some trouble remembering: our very first day of school. He asks the audience to remember our parents leading us by the hand, to imagine their parents behind them and their parents behind them, and so on. He asks us to trace our entire lineage through the veins of a fallen tree leaf, which was given out before the play commenced. The point of this simple exercise of the mind, and of imagination, is to convey how every audience member watching “Mnemonic” comes from a common ancestor. Remembering...

Author: By Andres A. Arguello, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mnemonic Chaotic But Captivating | 10/27/2008 | See Source »

Beyond the posters, there seemed to be no trace of ADPhi on campus. The contact information led only to a brief phone call with a man named “Mo,” an undergraduate in the Brandeis chapter. And members of Harvard’s other fraternities had no clues. In fact, the only suspicion of any ADPhi-related activity was miles away...

Author: By Rebecca A. Cooper and Charleton A. Lamb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Mission Impossible: Elusive Literati | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

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