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...voting scheme requires voters to initially rank their top six candidates in order to narrow the pool down to five. The candidate with the fewest number one rankings is eliminated and the ballots in favor of this candidate are redistributed to the voter’s second choice. The process is repeated until six candidates remain. A final vote of 2135 is required in order to gain a seat in the school committee...
...according to UC President Andrea R. Flores ’10. “People really feel the absence of the party fund,” she said.The Social Grants Act was approved in April and included many of the same restrictions carried over to the current proposal in order to appease many of the administration’s concerns, former UC Finance Committee Chair Sundeep S. Iyer ’10 said...
...wake of the news about the magnitude of the endowment’s decrease, university officials have been promoting an increase in flexible funds raised in order to ensure that major priorities like financial aid can still be met. In other words, rather than encouraging donors to give earmarked gifts for specific purposes, the university has wisely been trying to convince its benefactors to not restrict their donations and to allow their resources to be allocated for whatever purpose deemed most in need of funding...
...been cited in numerous cases that have followed, as the number of states whose courts have demanded equal marriage rights for gays has grown. But those same cases have also helped fuel opponents, who say gay marriage is being foisted upon the U.S. by out-of-touch judges. In order to counter that argument, Bonauto and other gay-marriage activists in Maine who began organizing to press for gay marriage there decided to avoid taking the issue to court. Instead, they set about electing lawmakers who were friendly to their cause two years ago, and this year successfully convinced...
...film, which premieres this month in the Argentine city of Mar del Plata, Marroquín also meets with the three sons of Luis Carlos Galán, a charismatic presidential candidate whose public denouncements of Escobar prompted the kingpin to order his death in 1989. Marroquín says the meeting with the Galáns was more nerve-racking than the time when he, as a teenager in Medellín, was summoned by pistol-packing leaders of a rival cartel. (At the time, he made out his will beforehand.) "I felt 10 times more afraid, even though...