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...oldest of Tibetan Buddhism's four allied schools, Kagyu Karma was the first to adopt reincarnation as a means of choosing its leader, called the Karmapa. The process is not always peaceful; over the centuries, warring factions have sponsored dueling candidates, igniting bloody battles...
...federal judge ordered Maryland's Worcester County to adopt cumulative voting to elect its five countywide commissioners. The plan would allow each voter to cast five votes as he or she wishes -- for separate candidates or, say, cumulatively for one. The method would give black voters, who constitute 21% of the county's population, a chance to elect a black commissioner without creating a black district. The county plans to appeal...
...most efficient VAT is one without any exemptions, which is the type of VAT the U.S. should adopt. The problems European countries face with their VATs are the result of their decisions to make their system more complex...
Even if we adopt none of her policies, we can gain insight from Guinier's speech. Representative democracy can be reformed without being "dismantled...
Doctors were mystified and intrigued. A pediatrician who had closely monitored the last two children wrote up the family's history in a 1972 medical journal as a classic example of how sudden infant death syndrome (or SIDS) can run in families. As for Hoyt, she went on to adopt a son, who is now 17. But she never forgot her dead offspring. She kept their photos throughout the house and laid flowers on their graves every Memorial Day. "She'd say, 'I miss my children. They all died on me -- you know, that crib disease,' " recalls Martha Nestle...