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...qualifications and ideas, and a site like mine enables voters to see what those qualifications and ideas are,” she said.Nemeth, who studied computer science as a University of Michigan undergraduate, said she conceived Imagine Election a couple of years ago when she began receiving postcards about hometown candidates. But she didn’t act on her plan until this summer, aided by a fellowship from the HBS Social Enterprise Institute. Besides coding the site, Nemeth writes most of the candidate profiles herself, along with a small group of freelance writers. Information is taken from...
Four Radcliffe crews faced off against a slew of collegiate and international foes in the annual Head of the Charles Regatta yesterday afternoon. Despite the tough competition, the Crimson women drew on the hometown crowd to post a set of excellent early-season results.The lightweights raced first, fielding two boats in the lightweight eight division. Radcliffe’s first varsity eight placed sixth overall and third among collegiate crews with a time of 17:36.954 for the 5K race.“I think we were hoping to place a little better than we had, but that being said...
...Hometown: Irish Town, Jamaica...
...vaporized. The latest poll, released Sept. 18 by Democratic challenger Suzanne Kosmas, a well-financed, term-limited state legislator and businesswoman from New Smyrna Beach, showed Feeney only one percentage point ahead of Kosmas, a statistical dead heat. For the first time, Feeney lost the endorsement of his hometown newspaper, the Orlando Sentinel, which noted on October 12 that Feeney's power has waned, his "hard-right ideology" [on issues like immigration reform, energy policy and the bailout bill, which he voted against twice] would make him irrelevant in Democrat-majority House and that the community has a capable alternative...
...Hometown: Benoni, South Africa...