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...lights will again face off against rivals No. 1 Princeton and No. 2 Wisconsin, as it has throughout its past. Last year, the Black and White first varsity put together its best row of the year in the Sprints and topped the Badgers by nearly three seconds and the Tigers by three-and-a-half. Two weeks before Sprints last year, the lights knocked off Princeton for the first time in 11 attempts, and in the Knecht Cup last April, they took down Wisconsin...
...driver's license has never been just about driving. When the first ones were issued in the early 1900s, the idea was to collect fees, not to test driving skills. More recently, revoking licenses became a way to punish people who didn't pay child support or, in Wisconsin, shovel snow off their walks. In its most coveted form, the license is proof of age--or of fraud, as the case may be. In college, for example, I was not Amanda Ripley from New Jersey; I was Amanda Jones from California. I lived on Yellowbrick Road and looked suspiciously joyful...
National security is a federal responsibility, as Jeff Lungren, a spokesman for bill sponsor Republican Representative James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, points out. For that very reason, though, a national ID might have been cleaner. There would be no need to rely on DMV workers, a few of whom have been known to sell driver's licenses for the right price. "Instead of pretending we are not creating national ID cards when we obviously are, Congress should carefully create an effective federal document that helps prevent terrorism--with as much respect for privacy as possible," Alexander wrote...
...photo ID at the polls (Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, South Carolina and South Dakota), and seven more have considered such a requirement this year. In the past two weeks alone, photo-ID bills have been signed into law in Georgia and Indiana; killed in committee in California; and vetoed in Wisconsin by Governor Jim Doyle, a Democrat. Doyle insists the bill "has more to do with politics than ... with fraud." In Georgia, G.O.P. Governor Sonny Perdue defended the new law: "Considering you must show a photo ID when cashing a check, renting a movie, getting on an airplane, I believe this...
AWARDED. JANEAL LEE, 30, winner of the Ms. Wheelchair Wisconsin pageant, whose title was rescinded after a newspaper photo showed her standing up (which Lee, who has muscular dystrophy, can do for short periods); the title of Miss disAbility International; in Appleton, Wis. The award was created by the World Association of Persons with Disabilities after Lee was disqualified from the Wisconsin pageant. "The focus," said Lee, "is on people's abilities, and I think that is excellent...