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...Cleveland but also 8,000 kids in Milwaukee, Wis., and 52 in Pensacola, Fla., who are beneficiaries of similar programs. And George W. Bush's most controversial education proposal--$1,500 vouchers for kids in failing schools--could be dead. Court watchers take note: as in previous church-state cases, the key vote, as in the election case, appears to belong to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor...
David Mamet wrote and directed the film State and Main, which opens...
...each party usually remains the same after a fair manual recount--unless extra ballots turn up. A manual recount using different standards to decide voter intention can be exceedingly unfair. We should avoid manual recounts or insist that they have uniform standards in all precincts. JOHN S. NISBET State College...
This election has shown up so many critical weaknesses in the American electoral system--inconsistent voting procedures from state to state, early declarations of the winner and partisanship of breathtaking proportions. Surely a set of statutory rules about the counting and recounting of votes could have saved the U.S. all this embarrassment. The new President must ensure that America never again faces this sorry situation. NEIL ROXBURGH London...
...genuine breakthrough, it was wrong to characterize the compacting presses currently in use as "remarkably crude." They are light-years away from that description. Today's presses are computer-monitored precision-production machines that can produce high-quality products at a fast rate. You were also wrong to state that current powder presses are the size of a tractor trailer and demand "the ministrations of at least 200 people to keep them running through a workweek." Many conventional compacting powder presses are certainly much smaller than a tractor trailer, and often they can be handled by just one skilled production...