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...flawed, plurality voting system. Our system produces outcomes in which the winning candidate often does not represent the policy preferences of the majority of voters. In the presidential election of 1844, when slave-owner James Polk defeated widely-respected abolitionist Henry Clay, Polk’s fellow abolitionist James Birney accounted for the narrow difference in many states that Clay lost, and probably cost abolitionists the presidency decades before the Civil War. In 1912, William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, and Eugene Debs created a jumbled electoral confusion and allowed Woodrow Wilson to waltz to the presidency despite the fact that...
...married future Six Million Dollar Man Lee Majors and became Farrah Fawcett-Majors - one of those celebrity name changes (Rebecca Romijn Stamos, Meredith Baxter Birney) that virtually guarantee the couple will split. She and Majors separated in 1979 and divorced three years later...
...sharply undervalued. Says Marc Cohen, who follows the industry for Sanford C. Bernstein, a New York brokerage firm: "The financial community is overreacting. It is understating the strength of the manufacturers' defense, and it is overstating the financial consequences." Concurs John Maxwell of Furman Selz Mager Dietz & Birney: "This is still a healthy business financially...
...paid and why he inspires so much disgust. As for newly freed billionaire Rich, he would be well advised to hold off on his long-awaited dream to stroll down Fifth Avenue and "wave to his friends"; he should sit tight in his luxurious fortress in Switzerland. REED BIRNEY New York City...
Having lived in Birney for his entire life, Carson recalls many aspects of growing up in such a small town--spending lots of time with his family, knowing few people his own age, but most of all, experiencing a great amount of privacy...