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...basic principle is that states should do their best to make sure the actual will of the people is expressed in the vote of the president," Tribe said on the New York Times web site yesterday. "That is done in a different way in different states, but one way is to recount manually when it is terribly close and there is a reason to believe the machines screw...
...basic concept of human rights has undergone an enormous change in the last 50 years from being dismissed as a utopian ideal, to a universal acknowledgement that those rights should be fact," said Graham T. Allison '62, Dillon professor of government at the Kennedy School of Government...
...potential way to ensure the will of the people is to engineer a voting system where voters can check the validity of their ballots themselves. Simply put, ballots need to be easy to read and easy to check for errors (two simple and very basic requirements lacking in the Palm Beach ballot, as well as in ballots around the country). It tells you a little something about the efficiency and effectiveness of the government compared to the private sector when we get more confirmation that our will has been recorded purchasing a book from Amazon.com than we do voting...
...humanitarian organization that seeks to provide aid to the Palestinian people will inevitably come under attack from those with a political agenda against the fulfillment of the basic human rights of Palestinians," Yasin said...
Judging by his story on Starbucks' "new" vacuum coffee pot [TREND ALERT, Oct. 23], you need to send Joshua Quittner to basic-science class. The vacuum coffee pots (which can actually be purchased for a few dollars at secondhand stores) push the water to the top funnel because of pressure created by boiling water in the bottom vessel, not by a vacuum in the upper chamber. When the bottom vessel is allowed to cool, a vacuum forms and sucks the coffee back down. The only thing new about this technology is Starbucks' $169 price tag. BILL CONNELL Florence...