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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...
...spotlight, Harvard’s new starters surpassed the achievements of their predecessors, holding opponents to 190.4 yards per game through the air—nearly seven yards better than the year before—and the league’s lowest opponent completion percentage, at only 53 percent...
...Court of Appeals, 4th Circuit, before taking a clerkship for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Primis noted that clerking is a once-in-a-lifetime experience that can “distinguish and advance one’s legal career.” According to the rankings, 41.4 percent of 2007 Yale Law School graduates were employed in judicial clerkships, with 37.0 percent of the class clerking in Article III courts. In contrast, 20.6 percent of the Harvard Law Class of 2007 worked in judicial clerkships, with 18.2 percent of the class in Article III courts. Law schools...
...begun production of the H1N1 vaccine, and, optimistically, UHS could receive “a lot” of the H1N1 vaccine ordered by the end of October, Rosenthal said. Since the end of August, 120 people have gone to UHS with influenza-like illnesses, about 80 to 85 percent of whom are undergraduates, according to Rosenthal. This number is much higher than the usual number of sick students in September. “What we’re seeing in a day, we might be seeing in a week last year,” Rosenthal said...