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...lowering its standards for attendance yesterday. Too bad old habits die hard. Not enough professors turned out to yesterday’s meeting to take a binding vote on the new measure, which would have lowered the quorum—the number of attendees required for an official Faculty vote??from one sixth of the professoriate’s approximately 700 members to one eighth. The development was perhaps a first in the nearly two-century history of the Faculty: a failure to achieve quorum in a vote on quorum. Chair of the Economics Department James H. Stock...
...follow the process because I’m interested in student life,” she wrote in an e-mail. “I don’t support one candidate over another candidate because I don’t vote??this is for the students to decide...
...Boaz, the Executive Vice President for the Cato Institute, “the combination of views that we might call fiscally conservative and socially liberal has substantially increased,” a fact that is supported by national polls. In a policy analysis entitled “The Libertarian Vote?? by Boaz and David Kirby, multiple national surveys (including the Gallup poll) find from 10 to 20 percent “giving libertarian answers...
...party—he required 78 percent of the Republican vote to win in Connecticut this year. Again, Lieberman is able to use his opportunistic politics for personal gain, currying favor with Connecticut’s liberal voters and maximizing his influence as the Democrats’ majority-sealing vote??all without explicitly revealing where he stands. Instead, he should face the truth about his party affiliation and put ethics ahead of his appetite for power...
...President Bush’s approval ratings continue to plummet, many Americans may be asking themselves, “What if Al Gore had won the election?” Then many of them quickly realize that he did win the election—at least the popular vote??and, embittered, yet resigned, they quickly go back to expressing their frustration with the current President...