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The nation 's testing programs devote a great deal of energy to testing reading and writing , but they fail to treat literature and cultural literacy seriously . " A study to be released today that was conducted by the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University Law School finds that the nation 's three most commonly purchased electronic voting machines are all vulnerable to fraud . To celebrate this appointment , his supporters spent several hours and several thousand bullets firing their Kalashnikovs in the air , despite the ban on the display of firearms in the nation s capital . Opportunity is there for the Democrats : Capitalizing on George W. Bush 's troubles , the party has a 12-point advantage over the Republicans in trust to handle the nation 's main problems , and it leads in nine of 10 individual issues , with some huge gains from three years ago . The proposed state-of-the-art facility is modeled on Virginia 's Advanced Shipbuilding and Carrier Integration Center and will be the meeting place for the nation 's top aviation engineers , research and development technicians and university and business interests . We will have local elections this year , she said , then in January 1997 like good Muslims we will all fast , then share the happiness of Eid , then celebrate the 50th anniversary of the nation s independence followed by elections not sooner than 1998 . But since to our bad luck there is no such figure on the national horizon it might be best to stick to the certainties of the present system , with all its gross shortcomings , and pray that when elections come round , as they must , some of the sharp souls responsible for the nation s distress will get what they deserve and the nation will salvage something from the wreckage with which its path at present seems to be so full .