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...most of the international press corps has gone home, their heads crammed with images and performances. Toronto, famous for years now as the kickoff to Oscar season, is the place Hollywood visits in search of Academy Award contenders. There were a few - though in a straitened economic environment, with fewer zillionaires eager to bankroll indie movies, some excellent films (Life During Wartime, The Joneses) had a tough time finding buyers. Crystal-balling the Oscars is fun, but it can't compare with seeing and savoring good films that might not be found elsewhere. Here's a rundown of five pictures...
...including write-ins. Candidates who are ranked first on ten percent of ballots are declared elected. Any extra ballots they receive beyond the ten percent quota are redistributed to the candidates marked next in preference on those excess ballots.The count continues with the elimination of those candidates who received fewer than 50 first place rankings and the redistribution of their ballots to other candidates according to the next preference marked. After each, the candidate with lowest number of votes is eliminated, and ballots are again redistributed. Cambridge is the only city in the country that uses this electoral system...
...profit “Partnership for Public Service,” a D.C.-based organization that aims to educate students about ways they can get involved in public service, also said that she had detected an increased interest in the public sector in the last year. With fewer career options available because of the economic situation, Ragin said, “people are beginning to think that government is something that they could be interested in and really...
...undergraduates with family within two to three hours of campus can be sent to their family members. UHS has also located 38 empty bedrooms throughout the House system in which to isolate students who cannot return home and do not have single bedrooms, in case Stillman becomes full. Fewer than five students have used these rooms so far. Rosenthal declined to detail the location of these rooms. HUDS has arranged to deliver food to students who are being isolated in single bedrooms or in the empty bedrooms around campus. Carly L. Dickson ’12 said...
...through the exchanges. The tax penalty assessed to the employer would be either $400 per worker (regardless of how many workers receive subsidies) or the average cost of subsidies in a given year multiplied by the number of workers receiving them in the company - whichever is lower. (Businesses with fewer than 50 employees would be exempt from this...