Word: pottered
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...This country has changed significantly, but the voting systems haven't adapted themselves to the changes," said Trevor Potter, the former chair and commissioner of the Federal Election Commission...
...Election administration is the key to creating a system which people can trust and believe in," Potter said...
Harvard, of course, aspires to make us all like Harry Bailey and Sam Wainwright--or even, God help us, like Mr. Potter, the wealthy, grasping banker of Bedford Falls. And no one here, no gov jock or pre-med or final club frequenter wants to be George Bailey. No one wants to suffer and sweat and barely scrape by, to give up youthful potential in favor of adult burdens, to sacrifice dreams on the altar of necessity. No one wants to be at the end of their rope on Christmas Eve, staring down into dark water and needing a little...
...could get cute and explicate the movie as an anticorporate parable. Without George and his community-conscious building and loan, the cartoonishly bad Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore) would have synergized Bedford Falls into a grim and soulless company town. Do people respond to the movie as a protest against takeovers? I doubt...
...movie backward from Harry's toast, and the story shows something very odd: nobody, with the exception of Potter, is unkind to anyone else--that is, up to when George is about to go off the deep end. Until then, everyone acts decently, helpfully, cheerfully, with George setting the standard by making a bank into a generous neighbor--not an easy thing...