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...instant-runoff voting, that holds the most potential for the future. Already endorsed by President Obama and Arizona Senator John McCain, instant-runoff, used by Australia and Canada, allows voters to rank candidates preferentially. When all the votes are received, if no candidate receives over 50 percent of the first-rank preferences, the candidate with the fewest number of first-preference votes is eliminated and the ballots that ranked the eliminated candidate first transfer their first-preference vote to their second-ranked candidate. This process goes on until one candidate wins over 50 percent of the first-preference vote...
...station, and I said ‘I have to do this.’ I have to be able to be around this music all the time,” Poirier says. Tova R. Holmes ‘11, president of WHRB, loves its collection of first- and limited-edition records, saying that about 95% of her shows are played on vinyl...
...that in the early days of the station, “commercial radio depended on the largest number of listeners, but WHRB’s intention was always to provide the best music, and the listener followed... and that holds true today.” WHRB’s first radio broadcast, which devoted its time to jazz and classical music, as well as a 15-minute news segment, abided by a formula quite similar to its modern schedule. Rock music was first incorporated into the rotation in the early 1970s...
...start that even with the Democrats' 60-vote Senate supermajority, which evaporated with Republican Scott Brown's election in January, the confirmation would not be easy. And it wasn't, despite support from hundreds of law professors and one Senate Republican, Richard Lugar of Indiana. After her nomination was first reported out of committee, it languished through 2009. Obama had to renominate Johnsen again this year, resulting in a second hearing in March...
...state based on Islamic law, the Brotherhood is far more popular than any of the small liberal opposition groups that joined together in 2005 under the banner of Kifaya or those who supported the presidential campaign of Ayman Nour, who came in second to Mubarak in the country's first multicandidate presidential race. (Read "Will ElBaradei Run for President of Egypt...