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While many might claim that it is just too risky to elect Ty as President because “he doesn’t know the difference between a motion to table and motion to postpone” or “he just doesn’t understand how we work,” they should know from someone who held the job last year that the Undergraduate Council is not about motions or meetings. Any Harvard student could figure this out. (The number of members of the Undergraduate Council in the past several years who are also elected...
...SHERIFF-ELECT OF DALLAS COUNTY Deep in the heart of Bush-Cheney country, Lupe Valdez bested a heavily funded Republican to become not only the county's first female sheriff but also the first Hispanic lesbian Democrat to hold the office...
...cultural attitudesmost notably the fear of being labeled as "acting white" if they performed well or studied too much in school. His theories have helped inspire barbed public comments from such prominent African Americans as Bill Cosby, who bemoans negligent parenting, and Barack Obama, Illinois' new U.S. Senator-elect, who cites the "acting white" mind-set. But so far, few of those theories or laments have come with a matching solution...
Robert C. Schaffer ’05—who police say they found in his dorm with 16 bags of psilocybin mushrooms—will elect whether to face trial by jury or judge in a compliance and election hearing slated...
...conservative, and theologically stern churches are growing at the expense of more liberal ones. Clearly, the "Christian values" message - pro-life, anti- drug liberalization and gay marriage - also resonates with voters who'd rather spend Sunday on the couch than on their knees. Steve Fielding, Family First's senator-elect, who counts several non-Christians among his 15 brothers and sisters, is sure of that: "We believe we have an affinity with the silent majority of Australians, people who support family values, helping each other, the traditional values that have stood the test of time...