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In 2006, 18,000 votes disappeared in Sarasota due to machine error or tampering, the exact nature of which still has not been determined. A bill, H.R. 811 — the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act — is currently up before the US House of Representatives to avoid this happening again. It allows for paper records …
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‘It was our drink, our trade, our greed which had hopelessly demoralized the native African. We had drugged him with our drink; we had shot him with our guns; we sold him powder and lead, so that he might enslave his fellow-blacks. Those castles along the coast were the monuments of our savage injustice to …
‘Good morning; good morning!’ the General saidWhen we met him last week on our way to the line.Now the soldiers he smiled at are most of ’em dead,And we’re cursing his staff for incompetent swine.‘He’s a cheery old card, grunted Harry to JackAs they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack.………………………………………..But he did for …
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In London 51% of the116,019 live births in 2005 were to a mother born overseas. By any measure this is an amazing statistic, and explains why immigration is the main, sometimes the only, topic of social conversation. Britain is now a country so diverse that those in their middle age do not recognize it. Thousands …
….Figures emerge from broken reflections contained in the mobile fluid of perpetual semiquaver tremolandos and arpeggios."* And Epicureans plant potatoes. *From a programme note by Paul Griffiths on Gyorgy Ligeti’s five Etudes for Piano Solo
