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...DeBergalis was not elected under the city’s unusual system of proportional representation, in which each voter ranks candidates and each rank on the ballot matters—the number one votes count most, but the other slots on the ballot count...
...process, now done almost instantaneously by computer, continues in subsequent rounds until nine council candidates make quota and are elected—in last night’s preliminary count, for 13 rounds...
...voting system of Cambridge is a “proportional” system, in which first place votes count the most. Last election, approximately 1,700 first-place votes secured a seat on the council. While DeBergalis says he has helped as many as 800 students at Harvard and MIT register, this number falls far short of the turnout he will need to be elected. At the time of the last election, two years ago, only 649 Harvard undergraduates were registered to vote in Cambridge, and less than eight percent of them voted in the race for City Council...
...through as a fraternity-house waiter, and his lack of visible talent at the Yale Drama School ... [Director] Harold Clurman ... informed Kazan that his only gift was excessive energy. But that, of course, is a quality too often underestimated by intellectuals ... [Kazan had] more brief affairs than he can count or recount-including one with a cheerfully complaisant Marilyn Monroe. 'Sick,' Kazan pronounces, then adds, 'People make fun of the male crisis at 45. I had that crisis all my life. I knew there was more to life than I was getting, and I didn't want to miss...
However, Columbia was not yet down for the count, as it rallied behind the hitting and blocking of senior Cassie Bryan to draw the score even...