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This is not the conclusion of conspiracy theorists, but rather of realists. With the advent of electronic voting systems, a single point of entry into the election system could provide the ability to manipulate millions of votes. Opportunity, of course, does not equal intent. While it is theoretically possible that a group of people attempted to systematically alter the outcome of the presidential election, it is more likely that the real fraud possibility consists of cover-ups of the systemically insecure and inaccurate voting machines employed in most of the country...
Thus, the advent of child suffrage will promote democracy in two important ways, revitalizing efficacy in the currently under-represented young adult and eliminating the last artificial barrier that remains between citizens and truly free and fair voting procedures...
...unimposing student center, which handicapped its viability. Phillip Parsons, then director of planning in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was especially cognizant of the desire not to undermine House life—the perennial complaint about the notion of an inter-House social center. But since the advent of randomization in blocking, College social life no longer revolves around the Houses. And because of the College’s shortage of rehearsal, practice and meeting spaces, House spaces are no longer capable of accommodating their own communities. A student center today is needed in order to save House life...
Ultimately, the production shows that a true classic will never age. The human quest for fulfillment, painful as it can be, is just as touching today as it was at the advent of theater...
...With the advent of the 24-hour cable news channel, the news industry began to digress from serious (albeit occasionally soporific) to bombastic, sensational and disposable. Today’s news is riddled with salacious stories, think O.J. Simpson or Chandra Levy, that are entertaining but utterly irrelevant and inconsequential. Unfortunately, this journalistic indiscretion has at least one serious negative consequence. As it is natural to assume that a story’s importance is proportional to the amount of media coverage it generates, the media is disseminating a warped worldview to an unsuspecting, gullible public. The media must remember...