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Furthermore, proportional representation has been proven to reduce gender inequalities within elected government. Today, women constitute only 11 percent of the House of Representatives and a mere eight percent of the Senate. Systems of proportional representation, however, have been proven to result in greater numbers of elected women. Indeed, this phenomenon has been substantiated in electoral systems around the world: Sweden has a legislature that is 41 percent female, Norway's is 39 percent and South Africa's is 25 percent, dwarfing America's humiliating figures...
...other news today was Harry's posting of "tentative" Head boatings. As I expected, I'm in the second championship eight despite having been beaten by a few sophomore ports on the 6k erg test. It'll be the first time I've rowed on Sunday. We'll practice together for the first time tomorrow morning...
From our first stroke with all eight it was a much better row than when we took the V3 out with the Rochester lineup. The one frustrating thing was that my back and shoulders got sore and tired before my legs did, probably because it was early morning and I hadn't stretched and warmed up enough. I need to loosen up more at the beginning of practice. We'll be going out in the lineups for the Head all this week so things will get better. We have another 6K test on Monday; I doubt the lineups will change...
...Crimson bench, which had been silent for much of the third game, sprang to life as Harvard went on to score the next eight points to take an 8-2 lead...
Money is as money does. A Republican filibuster left campaign finance reform dead in the water for a fourth consecutive year late Tuesday, despite Senator John McCain's no-surrender vow. All 45 Democrats voted against the maneuver by the GOP leadership, but they were joined by only eight Republicans, leaving them seven votes short of the 60 they needed to defeat the filibuster. Although the bill's sponsors - Senators McCain and Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) - had narrowed down the legislation into a ban on the unlimited soft-money contributions that allow corporations to pour millions of dollars into party...