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Voting by secret ballot in a Faculty meeting at the Loeb Drama Center, 218 faculty members affirmed a motion put on the docket by Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies J. Lorand Matory ’82, stating that “the Faculty lacks confidence in the leadership of Lawrence H. Summers.” One hundred eighty-five voted against and 18 abstained from the motion, which was tantamount to a vote of no confidence...
...we’re kind of thinking about these talks with Gross as a completely separate thing,” said Alexander L. Pasternack ’05, who helped organize Harvard Students for Clean Energy, one of the groups responsible for putting the wind power referendum on the ballot...
Less than four months after George W. Bush’s victory over John F. Kerry, I thought I could take a breather from the insanity of elections. But there was the overstuffed envelope in my mailbox—my absentee ballot. Apparently I had overlooked local elections, and for some unknown and likely unintelligible reason, Los Angeles is having its mayoral election today. While my ignorance may not be surprising given that I am 3,000 miles from home, among my fellow Los Angelinos, I am unfortunately not alone...
...given the dominance of national politics, there is a simple and effective way to boost participation in local elections: put local elections on the same ballot as national elections. A single local and national election day (when possible) has several advantages...
...ites and tribal leaders in parts of the country where they dominate will help loosen the grip the conservative Wahhabis hold on cultural and religious affairs. But the danger in acceding to Western demands for free elections is that they could result in handing the Islamists power at the ballot box. So far, Islamic factions have carried the day, though without the huge margins many had predicted, and there is some evidence that moderate voters may be more numerous as the balloting continues. Risky as the outcome may be if elections are expanded, "the process is unstoppable," says a foreign...