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...from the National Campaign at the Institute of Politics conducted a similar study, in which they analyzed voting restrictions in five states that required students to register or vote in person for their first election. The new study by the Student PIRGs also evaluated different ways to overcome the effect of these laws. “We had a theory that there are things you can do to mitigate it,” said David J. Rosenfeld, the study’s author and the director of the Student PIRGs’ national program. In Arizona, those wanting to register...
...despite the hurdles, the musicians go from gig to gig because they see they are having an effect. "Artists make political statements subtly and not so subtly and those statements have an impact on the audience," said Bakari Kitwana, who serves as Artist in Residence at the Center for the Study of Race Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago. "This is what hip-hop does at its best, so we we see young people gravitating toward hip hop, seeing their own conditions and have hip-hop giving them a voice...
...more than a decade, fiction is not his primary solar system. He is a cognitive psychologist of some renown, newly relocated from Syracuse University to Atlanta's Georgia Tech. Most of his writings appear in such journals as Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, with enticing titles like "Aging and the Stroop Effect: A Meta-Analysis." He wrote Omega Minor in his spare time. When English rights were sold, he did the translation himself, all 695 pages...
...drifting toward dictatorship." For Mbeki, stopping Zuma, whom he had come to view as wholly unfit for office, seemed to become the end to justify all means. "The possibility of a Zuma presidency was a scenario far worse than a dream deferred," writes Gevisser. "It would be, in effect, a dream shattered." That may or may not be true for South Africa. In all likelihood, it will soon be true for Mbeki...
...Democrats were bad people. Gingrich deliberately set out to make politics angrier and meaner, and said people should not consider the Democrats to be honorable people with whom you disagree. They’re treasonous, they’re corrupt, they’re immoral, so I think his effect on politics was very negative...