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...Field-goal percentage. The Crimson shot 48 percent from the floor. The next-best team, Princeton, shot 44 percent...
LaRosa gained his seat after the 2899 ballots Russell won in the last election were reopened, and the votes recounted to determine the next-best finisher from the seven candidates who didn't win council seats in that Nov. 1983 election...
Working under the city's Hare system of proportional voting--which was designed by a 19th-century English lawyer to reflect the views of minority groups--municipal authorities will take only the 2899 ballots which were cast for Russell and determine the next-best finisher...
...more than any other woman, he makes love to as many women as possible; he is incapable of giving up his erotic friendships, though he is afraid of hurting Tereza. During the political unrest of 1968, Tomas and Tereza move to Switzerland; they are followed by Sabina, Tomas's next-best mistress. Some time later Tereza, deciding that she lacks the strength to live abroad, returns to Czechoslovakia, from which now there is no chance of returning. Tomas follows her back...
...possible, this season will be even tighter. Fifteen of the 17 clubs have legitimate chances at playoff spots (the top two teams in each of the three divisions automatically qualify; the two with the next-best records round out the field...