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Slay the Lizards

By Liam Keane | Published: May 30, 2006
Douglas Adams wrote in his book, So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish, about an ancient democracy where lizards ruled the people. Ford Prefect attempts to explain to Arthur Dent how the people allowed this to happen: “They’ve all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they’ve voted in more [...]
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I Voted

By Liam Keane | Published: November 9, 2005
Yesterday I voted for the first time. It was pretty exciting to get a ballot and fill it out. My appreciation of the event was increased because a few days prior, my sociology professor had shown a documentary that illustrated the end of South African apartheid and focused on the momentous occasion it had been [...]
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