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Clearly, minorities and third-party candidates find it exceedingly difficult to gain representation in legislative bodies, because the donkeys or the elephants are able to marshal between 45 and 55 percent of the vote. Minority parties are often forced to abandon the fundamental principles of their constituencies merely to form a coalition with a majority party. This well-established party then grudgingly grants them nominal representation, just as the black vote is taken for granted by the Democratic Party...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Better Way Than One Man, One Vote | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...another's worldview as independent assertions of other, potentially conflicting visions. Where conflicts of such a nature arise, Aristotle's advice to rely on democracy as the distiller of wisdom greater than that possessed by any single individual might perhaps be heeded. But democracy should not be able to marshal public funding in those cases of work either intended to, or reasonably construed as, desecrating the symbolic moorings of another's historical and cosmic identity. Mad props to Giuliani for recognizing that...

Author: By Bolek Z. Kabala, | Title: The Brooklyn Stink | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...First Marshal Justin M. Krebs '00, who received the highest vote total, said he agrees the gender issue is important...

Author: By Zachary R. Mider, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Men Outnumber Women in Class Marshal Vote | 10/12/1999 | See Source »

...think it's going to be a problem," marshal Adam D. Colvin '00 said...

Author: By Zachary R. Mider, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Men Outnumber Women in Class Marshal Vote | 10/12/1999 | See Source »

...class marshals also head the Senior Gift committee, collecting a fund from contributions by class members. Marshal Christopher A. Amar '00 suggested using the gift to start scholarships for local students...

Author: By Zachary R. Mider, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Men Outnumber Women in Class Marshal Vote | 10/12/1999 | See Source »

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