Word: smalling
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Many doctors give speeches part time, like Dr. Andrew T. Weil '63-'64, the alternative medicine expert and Dr. Fred Allen Jr., son of the comedian. But the number of part-time speakers is also small; only 12 of the 4,000 professional speakers registered with the National Speakers Association describe themselves as giving motivational talks on medicine...
...founded to nurture greater political involvement in the Harvard student body. Instead, it has become a large institution that caters to a small number of aspiring politicians while ignoring the approximately 6,500 undergraduates not on SAC. I am glad that former senator Pryor recognized this problem and is working to make the IOP accessible to all students...
...ballots up to the light, attempting to channel the voter who may or may not have meant to punch all the way through the flimsy card. We are told of "hanging chads," pieces of the ballot where the stylus should have punched all the way through and detached a small round confetti-like piece of paper, but instead leave the piece hanging by a cellulose thread. These chads, among other problems with the paper ballots, cause vote counting machines to have, by one estimate, margins of error at about 2 percent to 5 percent (the election right now is hinging...
...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 in the greatest representative democracy of the world. Like many shortcomings in the federal government, it comes down to accountability: If Amazon.com loses a small but noticeable percentage of its business, it may very well go under, but if election officials lose a similar number of votes as a consequence of ineptitude, it usually won't matter too much. In fact we wouldn't normally even hear about it. Well, now it does matter...
...didn't send it in because she thought it was too late. But she dropped her Gore ballot in the mailbox on Sunday, November 5. "I'm really pleased that my vote made a difference," she says. "It's an overwhelming sense, especially in America where you feel very small, to now realize that my voice will be heard. It strengthens my belief in our democratic election process - even at the level of county commissioners, whom we choose to represent us at every level is important. I'm not sure that it's going to make a difference...