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...federal judge ordered Maryland's Worcester County to adopt cumulative voting to elect its five countywide commissioners. The plan would allow each voter to cast five votes as he or she wishes -- for separate candidates or, say, cumulatively for one. The method would give black voters, who constitute 21% of the county's population, a chance to elect a black commissioner without creating a black district. The county plans to appeal...
...start work in the mail room than panic is visited upon the board of directors. Hudsucker's CEO and chief stockholder kills himself from 44 floors up, leaving his half share of Hudsucker stock for sale and possible public ownership. De facto chairman Sydney Mussberger (Paul Newman) moves to elect a complete imbecile president so Wall Street will panic, and the stock will plunge. Barnes proves himself more than worthy, but when his idiocy becomes golden, Mussberger and the board are forced to plot his fall from power by manipulating the brilliant but friendless journalist spy Archer...
...Guinier asks, should geography rather than race determine how we form groups to elect representatives. The answer is simple--we want to encourage geographic communities, not racial balkanization...
...last murder of a national leader occurred in 1928 when President-elect Alvaro Obregon was shot. Colosio's assassination jolts Mexicans with the prospect that violence may be subverting the modern society they thought they were building. It also puts the political focus between now and the Aug. 21 presidential election on two main issues: What will be done to ease the poverty that still afflicts so many Mexicans, and how much electoral reform will the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or P.R.I., accept without endangering its 65-year grip on the presidency -- which opponents regularly charge has been maintained through...
Douglas also won points for having attended Milton Academy, which one Porc member calls in the book a "club school--NB!". With just the turkey shoot done, and two outings and a final dinner left to go, club members were already clamoring to elect Douglas...