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...immensely challenging, especially with Cambridge’s complicated election system,” said Councillor Craig A. Kelley.Under the City’s single-vote-transfer proportional-representation system, each voter ranks nine candidates for the Council, including write-ins. Candidates who are ranked first on ten percent of ballots are declared elected. Any extra ballots they receive beyond the ten percent quota are redistributed to the candidates marked next in preference on those excess ballots.The count continues with the elimination of those candidates who received fewer than 50 first place rankings and the redistribution of their ballots...
...installation of a new presidential administration, Harvard students are increasingly looking towards the public sector for work experience, data and programming from campus career organizations suggest. Applicants for the Institute of Politics’ summer stipend program, which funds students working in the public sector, increased by 120 percent this spring, and applications to the IOP’s Director’s Internship program, an array of governmental summer work experiences, increased by 60 percent from 2008, according to the IOP’s Internship Program Administrator Amy Howell. Public sector enthusiasm has also been on display...
...concerns that certain groups, particularly Queer women and bisexuals, were not being adequately represented by the QSA. They called for more female leadership in the organization and for identity-specific breakout meetings. “I come into this room and I see it’s about 80 percent men,” said Emily S. Unger ’13. “I find it off-putting and it’s not that comfortable for me to come to QSA events, which is a problem.” The group also discussed QSA?...
Many improvements, both large and small, can be found on campus these days. Following last year’s recycling efforts, which gave the university a 55 percent recycling rate that put it at the top of the Ivy League, the university is continuing to pursue numerous waste-reduction strategies. New on campus are the new solar-powered Big Belly trash and recycling compactors, which fill up far less quickly than non-compacting receptacles and reduce the incentive to litter that overflowing trash cans often provide. Recycling has also been incorporated at the Fly-By lunch station beneath Annenberg...
...country opposes the construction of radar facilities within its borders. Many feared that the U.S. missile-defense system would destabilize security by provoking Russia, which has long been against the building of the shield, and making the Czech Republic a target for an Iranian first strike. "Seventy percent of people in the Czech Republic will certainly welcome [this decision],"said Social Democratic leader Jiri Paroubek, whose party had opposed the radar, citing recent polls. "I think it will raise the United States' prestige...