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...Because the politics of climate change are moving so fast and in such a pragmatic direction that he didn't want to get caught out. His campaign had been hearing from key environmental groups, says an Edwards adviser, "and the consensus was that they don't want to trash this bill. They want to strengthen it, not kill...
There, on Oct. 6, Shiftee—overcoming animosity from European judges and an audience that seemed to prefer Euro-trash techno over his experimental hip-hop sounds—captured first place in the Battle for World Supremacy...
Next Saturday, Harvard students will make the trek to dirty New Haven for a long day of drinking, eating, and trash-talking. Oh, right, and something about a football game. Our intrinsic distaste for Yalies goes unquestioned, but this long-standing rivalry had to begin somewhere. Seriously, why do we hate them so much? Back in 1869, Princeton and Rutgers played the first intercollegiate game of “football,” which bore a striking resemblance to soccer. Meanwhile, Harvard had been playing their own version, based roughly on the rules of rugby. Ever the football snobs, Harvard...
...early as the 2008 election - is the clearest sign yet of the stampede away from touch-screen. Its backers, like Dan McCrea, head of the Florida Voters Coalition, insist bills like this are necessary to get states to move to optical scanning, even if they are understandably reluctant to trash their investments in DRE. McCrea calls that foot-dragging the electoral equivalent of "buying a fleet of Pintos whose gas tanks you later find out blow up on you, but insisting you're going to keep using them because you spent all that money on them...
...result, feels the 2010 elections may be a more feasible target - and would give states more time to simply get rid of DRE and bring in optical scanning rather than spending more money in 2008 to add paper-trail capacity to machines they'll simply have to trash by 2012. McCrea, however, points out that New Mexico voted to convert back to a paper ballot system in the spring of 2006 and had it ready by last November's elections. The Nelson-Whitehouse goals "are feasible," he insists. "It will be a challenge, but the voter fairness issue involved here...