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For the past few days, the die-hard internet conspiracy theorists, desperate to cling to some thread of reasoning that will reassure them that Kerry actually won - that Bush stole the 2004 election - have been touting a “study” released by some sociology students at the University of California at Berkeley. The paper, titled The Effect of Electronic Voting Machines on Change in Support for Bush in the 2004 Florida Election, suggests that Bush received a surprisingly large number of votes in three heavily-Democratic counties in Southeast Florida that used electronic voting machines in this election. The implication is that...

Wellesley College 1969 Student Commencement Speech Hillary D. Rodham May 31, 1969 Ruth M. Adams, ninth president of Wellesley College, introduced Hillary D. Rodham, '69, at the 91st commencement exercises, as follows: In addition to inviting Senator Brooke to speak to them this morning, the Class of '69 has expressed a desire to speak to them and for them at this morning's commencement. There was no debate so far as I could ascertain as to who their spokesman was to be -- Miss Hillary Rodham. Member of this graduating class, she is a major in political science and a candidate...

Which one is he?" asked the 70-year-old lady from Yonkers. Near blind, seeing "only gray shadows," she had come to the St. Athanasius Church on Bay Parkway in Bensonhurst on this rainy, windswept evening, hoping to be healed. "The one in the purple vestments," said the lady's companion, who was leaning on a cane. "The one who looks like God." Truly, there was no mistaking the singular presence of Father Zlatko Sudac. He sat in a velvet-covered chair to the right of the altar. Moments before, the 31-year-old Croatian priest, russet shoulder-length hair pulled away from his pasty complexion, had...