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...week, used information from the 2003 California recall election—in which 135 candidates, including porn star Mary Carey, the diminutive Gary Coleman, and the ultimately successful Arnold Schwarzenegger, vied for the governorship. California, among other states, lists candidates’ names in an order that changes from district to district. The 157 variations provided a way for the paper’s authors to draw conclusions on miscast votes. Confused or rushed voters would sometimes vote for the candidate adjacent to the one they meant to support. “An estimate of adjacency misvoting...
Garcetti, who represents Los Angeles’ 13th district, consisting of Hollywood and several other communities, was honored with the Dan Fenn Award for his work on environmental issues and affordable housing...
...reformulated the Board’s court-mandated integrated school system with a plan that required 15 to 50 percent enrollment of minority students in every public K-12 school in the district...
...district does not believe that [alternatives] would work as well at achieving racial integration,” he added...
Zhang Haoming looks like amillion dollars. Or, more precisely, half a million, the amount he spent on a recent Saturday afternoon as he strolled around Beijing's funky 798 district, a series of crumbling redbrick factories that house the Chinese capital's largest concentration of art galleries. Appearing at an opening for the painter Yang Shaobin, the 44-year-old millionaire businessman stands out from the crowd of black-clad, ponytailed dealers, critics and artists, more John Travolta than Jasper Johns. His black hair is permed into loose curls that flounce slightly as he walks, his torso covered...