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This year, the council hopes to enable students to vote for their representatives via a web-based system accessible through the council’s new website. This is a sizeable technological step up from the telnet-based system used in elections over the past few years...
...witnesses’ testimony. Juries must determine if laws have been broken—they are not directed to opine on the fairness of a specific law; nor should they. America’s democratic system places the responsibility for creating law on the shoulders of the American people via popularly elected representatives. The legislature should create the law, while the judicial system interprets it; this is the very basis of the separation of powers. Allowing juries to disregard the will of the people by voiding an individual law in a specific case undermines the democratic nature of the American...
...prescription-drug issue in her quiver. So the Palm Beach County commissioner fired up a controversial TV ad last week. Roberts appears with four seniors in the 30-second spot, pitching a phone number that advises seniors how to save money by filling their prescriptions in Canada via the Internet. (The number connects to her campaign and is designed to be a lure.) Shaw's campaign has denounced the ads, saying they're encouraging Floridians to break the law. But so far the phones haven't stopped ringing. Meanwhile, Shaw has been bucked up by ads from a conservative seniors...
Large merchants as well as individuals who sell via online auction giant eBay often refuse to ship goods to Indonesia, Romania and Ukraine. Buy.com has completely overhauled its overseas-shipping practices. Citing fraud, the discount e-tailer last year closed its export operations run from offices in Britain, Canada and Australia and instead built a more secure export system run through its shipping partner in Florida...
...Before he finally slipped into freedom via Hong Kong, Zhang survived for almost a year disguised as "Old Fourth Wang," a peasant farmer and fisherman in a remote border area. There, he planted rice, fished carp, hunted water deer and encountered a nation where lives remain rooted in nature and clan and authentic interactions between human beings. People knew his true identity, and didn't care. Zhang, in turn, came to admire his "kind and generous neighbors." The most remarkable passages in this memoir are those that explore this "unsanctioned" China. Part of the tragedy for Zhang and fellow exiles...