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There’s the shared love and passion for their sport that has grown with time. For Ogunwole, it started when his high school’s wrestling coach saw him playing football and had instant dreams of getting the quick and powerful athlete on the mat. For Preston, wrestling education began before he learned how to read...

Author: By William B. Hauser, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Odd Couple Carries Wrestling | 3/2/2005 | See Source »

...argument. And lest you think I’m a dreamer, I’d like to point out that my world, or at least some facsimile of it, exists—and you enter it every time you turn on your computer and open your web browser or instant messaging client...

Author: By Matthew A. Gline, | Title: Gender-Free Zone | 3/1/2005 | See Source »

True, the recent record of national third parties has been less than impressive. Local campaigns in some states, however, have yielded success stories, and we should welcome their methods in Massachusetts. A combination of instant runoff voting and “fusion” voting—which is soon set to come before the state legislature here—could ultimately make ours a much more vibrant democracy...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Three's (Not) A Crowd | 3/1/2005 | See Source »

...also reiterate our call for a system of instant runoff voting, in which voters rank candidates instead of just voting for a single one. It works by eliminating the candidates with the fewest first-choice votes, giving their voters’ second-choice votes to the remaining candidates, and repeating the process until there are two candidates left—one of them able to claim a majority. The system has a proven track record everywhere from congressional nominations in Utah to the Undergraduate Council elections here at Harvard. The only barriers to its progress are the fears...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Three's (Not) A Crowd | 3/1/2005 | See Source »

...combination of fusion voting with instant runoff voting could only serve to expand the options available to citizens, enrich the content of political debate, and turn third parties from spoilers into innovators. It’s taken two parties to get us into the deadlock in which we find ourselves today. It may take three, four, or five to get us out—and it may take a new kind of politics to fulfill the promise of American democracy...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Three's (Not) A Crowd | 3/1/2005 | See Source »

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