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...fusion” voting alternative works by allowing local third parties to have their own slate and, if they choose, to cross-endorse candidates from a major party or other small parties. This lets them build up a steady base of support and demonstrate that level of support each election, while avoiding the danger of a “wasted vote” that simply doesn’t count or, worse, that throws elections to one’s least desirable candidate...
...most closely watched of any to come out of the Iraq war. The preliminary hearing will be open to the public and so, most likely, will a general court-martial, should it occur. "This one will get tried on TV," says a former military lawyer, "not at some small base in the middle of nowhere...
Pantano is now back at 2-2's home base at Camp Lejeune, N.C. In mid-February, a website based in Pakistan put up a photo montage depicting Pantano's severed head. The FBI and local police were called in, and Pantano turned his pleasant modern house into a small armed camp. Guns appeared from various bags and trunks. A bag of flak jackets lay by the couch, and Pantano took to wearing a sidearm under his Thomas Pink shirt. It was as close to the front lines as Lieut. Pantano is likely to get in the foreseeable future. This...
...News and World Report in 1998, Kaplan says he received hundreds of e-mailed scholarship questions from readers. He says that at that point he realized how much of a need there was for this sort of information, and his saved copies of this e-mail advice became the base for his first book, “How to Go to College Almost for Free,” which he completed the summer after his graduation from Harvard...
...wouldn’t normally want to base stereoblindness on paintings,” she said. “But all four self-portraits in the Louvre gallery included a ‘walled left...