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Donnarae’Vernay Wade ’10 was among the regulars who braved the longer-than-usual wait. The Dunster House resident said she eats Boloco burritos “all the time...
...party is betting on a little attitude going a long way. On Sept. 22, the Liberal Democratic Party gave itself a personality injection by electing Taro Aso, a Roman Catholic, "manga"-loving conservative with a wry smile and a sharp tongue, as its new president. The LDP must now wait to see if Aso's ascendance will be enough for the party to regain the five-decade legislative stranglehold it lost last year in the Diet...
...case. "We are hopeful that at the end of the inquest we will get the answer we need about how my cousin died," said Patricia da Silva Armani, a cousin of de Menezes who lives in London. Giovanni da Silva, de Menezes's brother, said that the three-year wait for the public inquest has been torturous. "Since they killed Jean Charles our mother has been depressed and very sick," he told the BBC at his home in Gonzaga, Brazil. "We just want this to end soon so we can have some relief." He and his mother will attend...
Because Election Day is not a national holiday, most Americans-with the exception of unionized workers like the Teamsters who have long negotiated to get the day off-have to rely on the indulgence of their employers or wait sometimes for hours in the evening in order to vote. A decade ago, only a handful of states offered early-voting options. Nationwide, 15% of the electorate cast early ballots in the 2000 presidential election. By 2004, 20% did so, and in the 2006 congressional elections, nearly one-quarter of all votes came from early voters...
Given the stakes in this election, many voters may still wait until the last moment rather than rushing to cast a ballot as soon as early voting begins in their state. After putting up with the race for this long, one would think, Why would voters head for the polls before even hearing the two presidential candidates address each other directly in a debate? Then again, after being subjected to almost two years of near endless campaigning and media coverage, the option of just voting and being done with it all may be harder to resist than either candidate...