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<p style="color: #777777;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;margin: 0;padding: 0 0 10px 0;">Volume 8, Number 18</p>
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<a href="http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/626"><img src="http://mitworld.mit.edu/thumbs/video/browse/mitwstill01061sloanelectoralcollegefoundationspt117oct2008.jpg" alt="Video" width="140" height="105" /></a>
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<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 10px 0 10px 0;">"It’s been estimated that if we’d had direct elections in 1960, we still wouldn’t know who won; we’d have recounts to this day."</p>
<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Robert Hardaway</h3>
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<h2 style="color: #94353b;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 20px;font-weight: normal;margin: 0 0 15px 0;padding: 0;"><a href="http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/626" style="color: #94353b;">The Electoral College: Its Logical Foundations and Problems What (if Anything) Should Be Done About Improving the System of Electing a President? (Part 1)</a></h2>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">October 17, 2008</p>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">In part one of this five-part symposium, Alex Belenky provides and overview of the Electoral College, and panelist make the case for keeping it--citing that it beats all of the alternatives.</p>
<h3 style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-weight: bold;margin:0;padding-top:20px;text-transform:uppercase;">Speakers</h3>
<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Judith Best</h3>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">Professor of Political Science, State University of New York, Cortland</p>
<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Robert Hardaway</h3>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">Professor of Law, University of Denver College of Law</p>
<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Alexander S. Belenky</h3>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">Visiting Scholar, MIT Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals</p>
<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">John Fortier</h3>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">Research Fellow, American Enterprise Institute</p>
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<a href="http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/627"><img src="http://mitworld.mit.edu/thumbs/video/browse/mitw01089sloanelectoralcollegeimprovepart217oct2008.jpg" alt="Video" width="140" height="105" /></a>
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<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 10px 0 10px 0;">"We have controlled experiments in 50 states, and the direct election of (their) chief executive, and it works just fine."</p>
<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Akhil Amar</h3>
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<h2 style="color: #94353b;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 20px;font-weight: normal;margin: 0 0 15px 0;padding: 0;"><a href="http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/627" style="color: #94353b;">What (if Anything) Should Be Done About Improving the System of Electing a President? (Part 2)</a></h2>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">October 17, 2008</p>
<p style="color: #323232; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">The Electoral College emphatically does not represent the best of all possible worlds, say these panelists, in clear opposition to the EC advocates who precede them in this conference.</p>
<h3 style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-weight: bold;margin:0;padding-top:20px;text-transform:uppercase;">Speakers</h3>
<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Akhil Amar</h3>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">Professor of Law, Yale University Law School</p>
<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Vikram Amar</h3>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">Professor of Law, University of California, Davis Law School<br />
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs</p>
<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Robert Bennett</h3>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">Nathaniel L. Nathanson Professor of Law, Northwestern University Law School</p>
<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Alexander Keyssar</h3>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">Professor of History and Social Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University</p>
<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Paul Schumaker</h3>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">Professor of Political Science, University of Kansas</p>
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<h3 style="color: #ffffff;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 22px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:15px;">Celebrating James Marshall and Humor in Children’s Books</h3>
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<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Roger Sutton</h3>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">Editor in Chief, The Horn Book</p>
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