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...criticism for a book composed of friendly recollections, but if anything, George, Being George is a bit too harsh. It may be true that he had a serious drinking problem in his declining years and was a rather horrible person to be married to, but those themes send the book out on a minor chord, particularly as friends recall Plimpton's lingering regret that he never took a proper crack at the great American novel. The rest of George, Being George proves he created something just as valuable: a great American character...
...crux of the issue is that a problem emerges when these standards are unclear or improperly applied. Several key states have been heavily affected. For instance, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit against the state of Michigan last month. The ACLU focused in particular on two of the state’s standards that will immediately nullify a voter’s registration: if he or she obtains a driver’s license in another state and if the mailed voter cards are returned by the post office as undeliverable. This case highlights the problem with...
...This problem is compounded by the lack of transparency in states’ procedures for maintaining voter lists. A study by The New York Times indicated that Colorado, Louisiana, and Michigan all had a decline in the membership on voter lists since August 1 of this year that cannot be explained by deaths and emigration alone. Colorado, for instance, which has had not only a number of highly visible registration drives but a net increase in population, has shown a net loss of 100,000 voters since 2004. A report from the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York...
...monitors describing the “Putanesca” sauce don’t really make me beam with Crimson pride. Suddenly it hit me. The reason Professor Yasushi’s solution seemed so off was because he was trying to solve his university’s structural problem with Harvard’s cultural solution. Their campus lacked a sense of community not because they lacked any program to institute that integration, but because they fundamentally lacked the infrastructure to enable it. Run like a European university, the University of Tokyo offers no on-campus residences. With...
...general public and public policy makers. For this reason, he said it was important to write the book in terms the general public could understand. “We [scientists] are not trained in everyday language; we’re trained in technical language. It is a major problem if scientists can’t communicate to the public,” he said in an interview before the lecture. “We made an enormous effort to write in language that the general public can understand.” During the question and answer session, Chivian said that...