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...vote, Cambridge voters rank their top nine choices, and a candidate wins a seat on the council when he or she receives “quota,” defined as one-tenth of the votes cast plus one extra vote. The system is problematic because it allowed the defeat this spring of MIT alum and students’ rights activist Matt S. DeBergalis—despite the fact that he received more first-place votes than two of the re-elected incumbents...
...Bears didn’t have to face Harvard at the preseason Ivy scrimmage in New Haven, which served as a warm up exhibition and whose results determine early CSA rankings. Instead, Brown traveled to Crimson home turf to accept their defeat...
Another election so soon? As Democrats ponder what direction their party should take in the wake of yet another presidential defeat, the choice of a new chairman of the Democratic National Committee could be the skirmish that reveals whether the party will try to resurrect itself by turning to the center or by stoking the anti-Bush anger of its left. Two leading contenders are emerging. Howard Dean is being urged to run by liberal activists convinced he is the best chance for channeling the base's ire into a national message. But the more centrist group believes that Dean...
...people of the U.S.--and that includes the media--need to rally behind our President and give him our full support. We must remain a nation united to defeat our enemies. They would like nothing better than to see the U.S. implode following a divisive election. We don't need the mainstream media to foment chaos and divisiveness. Enough already! We need the media to help unite us. United we stand; divided we fall. HARRIET E. RICE Webster...
...resignation from Attorney General John Ashcroft. The letter, written a few days earlier and sent quietly to the White House, was in stark contrast to Ashcroft's often brash style as the nation's top cop. The President, distracted by exit polls suggesting that he might be heading for defeat, absorbed the thrust of Ashcroft's missive, then put it aside and said he would deal with it later...