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Because many candidates do not win enough #1 votes to be elected outright, garnering transfer votes becomes crucial to many campaign strategies...
...coming year, I am sure that most Harvard students will continue to express feelings ranging from apathy to outright contempt for the Undergraduate Council; meanwhile, the Undergraduate Council has at least partially justified their doubts by its gross mishandling of its most fundamental mission, accurately representing the student body of the college. Jol A. Silversmith...
...tendency to dismiss black women's complaints as either exaggerations or outright fantasies has grown stronger since the Tawana Brawley fiasco. In that case, a 15-year-old black girl claimed that she had been abducted and raped by a mysterious gang of white men. It turned out that she had cooked up the story. Some feminists believe the doubts about black women's veracity stirred up by Brawley's lies may have led to acquittals in several rape cases in which the victim was a black woman...
...better invitation to civil-disobedience revolt than watching lawmakers who earn $125,100 travel around the world for free, have massages in the House gym for free, have their cars parked for free and have their tickets fixed, refusing to pay for the few perks that are not granted outright. "If ordinary people did that, they would be charged out the wazoo," says C.T. Anderson, a bartender at Manuel's Tavern in Atlanta, who has heard plenty from his customers. "People are just...
Dutch Foreign Minister Hans van den Broek, the E.C. President, condemned the idea outright last week. In acid remarks clearly aimed at Genscher, Van den Broek said, "It is easy from behind a desk to recognize Slovenia and Croatia and leave the rest of the work aside." According to Dutch officials, moreover, their government moved to call the WEU meeting only to force gun-shy Bonn "to put up or shut up" on the proposal to commit troops. About Genscher, a British diplomat cracked, "In his pursuit of the Nobel Peace Prize, he has been grossly irresponsible." Britain and France...