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...believe that conventional wisdom is mistaken. Granted, young people are disillusioned, but this hardly distinguishes them from the rest of the population. President George W. Bush’s approval ratings are consistently low, and according to Newsweek over half of adults now believe the country is on the wrong track. But instead of letting dissatisfaction give way to apathy, youth are realizing that simply ignoring politics is not the answer. Indeed, a new poll of youth nationwide by Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP) survey group found that 71 percent of young people ages...
...enviable position of spending four years at an institution with both extremely talented peers and vast political resources. Many young people, even Harvard students, still don’t believe that making a real difference in politics is possible at our age; they could not be more wrong, and students at Harvard have more opportunities to make an impact than anyone else. To cite just one example, policy regarding sex trafficking, drawn up by Harvard students at the IOP, has recently served as evidence for a bill in the state legislature in Pennsylvania, and is serving as the basis...
...bucks says “The Dorm Room Diet” will turn up in your mom’s next care package. (Moms, don’t get us wrong, we love the care packages, but there is no dearth of books here...
...voting is any indication, there are going to be technical problems. As states and counties certified their new devices in October - and it's not uncommon for multiple types of machines to be used in almost every state - there were reports of glitches, ballot errors, machines communicating in the wrong languages with voters, and continued doubts about chain of custody in the wake of multiple reports that most of the machines can be easily hacked. More than 26 states have adopted some kind of verifiable audit trail so voters can check their choices against the machine, but many states lack...
...anyone to access employees' job records without their permission. But Peter P. Swire, a law professor at the Ohio State University and former Chief Counselor for Privacy in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, rejects that rationale. He wrote a paper arguing that OTPPP's claim "is clearly wrong, contrary to law, and shows an ignorance of actual privacy law." The threats to privacy of Ohio's initiative, he says, are illusory...