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...issues. As a college student surrounded by strongly opinionated people, I knew that I should have had an idea about which candidate I preferred. Yet even after looking at the candidates' views and positions, I still wasn't sure whom or what to believe or whether my vote would make a difference in the long run. Politics has become such a contest of appeasing the middle ground and getting the vote that it is difficult to see beyond the game that is being played. JAMIE S. JOHNSTON Evanston...
...choice? Don't make me laugh. This was a contest between corporate and corporate, self-righteous and self-righteous, military and military, executioner and executioner. Neither of these pandering career politicos offered our planet and our country the radical changes needed to save them. An instant-runoff voting system should be implemented by 2004 so that presidential candidates presenting a diversity of opinions can have a shot at winning. MIKE FLYNN Burlington...
...prison drama The Green Mile. In that film, Michael Clarke Duncan plays a superstrong, superdumb MAAF on death row who cures one of his jailers (Tom Hanks) of a urinary-tract infection by laying a magical hand on his crotch. It's probably the only time Duncan will make it to third base on the big screen...
MAAFs exist because most Hollywood screenwriters don't know much about black people other than what they hear on records by white hip-hop star Eminem. So instead of getting life histories or love interests, black characters get magical powers. It doesn't even make financial sense. Smith saved the world in Men in Black and Independence Day, and those movies were huge hits; he carries Damon's clubs in Bagger Vance, and that movie, so far, has been a box-office flop. Smith is a bigger star than Damon, and yet it's Damon who wins the tournament...
...will be a year before the first of the minisatellites take to space, but the companies stand to make up to $4 million per fully loaded rocket--a nice payday for a missile designed for Doomsday. --By Jeffrey Kluger