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...cause some delays: voters won't all know how to operate them, poll workers will not be all fully trained, and, if recent primary voting is any indication, there are going to be technical problems. As states and counties certified their new devices in October - and it's not uncommon for multiple types of machines to be used in almost every state - there were reports of glitches, ballot errors, machines communicating in the wrong languages with voters, and continued doubts about chain of custody in the wake of multiple reports that most of the machines can be easily hacked. More...
...asked the National Coffee Association to oppose the applications. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office turned down Ethiopia's application for the Sidamo and Harar beans, saying the names are generic, but it did grant Yirgacheffe a trademark in August. Do governments frequently trademark native products? It's not uncommon, but they more frequently use geographic certification to brand everything from orange juice to cheeses. Jamaica has achieved great success with its Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee, which is registered with a certification mark in the U.S. Starbucks says it supports a certification program for Ethiopian coffees, but not trademarks...
...informal recruiting session, in a way. “I guess in some ways it’s sort of like an audition for [Katzenbach],” Hinkle says. Gretchen Anderson, who leads Katzenbach’s non-profit consulting efforts, says such arrangements are not uncommon. “We have committed as a firm to doing a certain amount of consulting every year at reduced fees,” Anderson says. “It’s not something that’s contributing to the bottom line revenue of the firm.” Roughly...
...uncommon for students involved with activism to find that their involvement leads them to reexamine their own life experience and understanding of Harvard. Usmani has friends who "have had identity crises at Harvard...
...coiffure is the product of four hours’ labor, or that the day’s maquillage is glowing just right under the streetlight, if the same person is evacuating her stomach on the pavement outside a final club—a scene not so uncommon these days. Just as the mutilated bodies of Toscanini’s employees send their own signals, preppy fashion at Harvard so frequently collides with the wearers’ bad behavior that I’ve taken seersucker and salmon, among other aspects of Cantabrigian wear, to be ostentatious declarations...