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...suit challenges the method the Cambridge Election Commission used to count ballots under Cambridge's unique proportional representation (PR) system...
...should have studied medicine in college. Given what happened to the team, this is probably true. He also said that he'd like more of the runners he knows there are around Harvard to go out for the track team. This would require a good working knowledge of PR, an ability which McCurdy already has quite a bit of. As a modest suggestion as to what (for either cross country or track) his alogan might be, how about: "Competition in Cross Country Isn't Like competition under Capitalism. Because if you lose a Cross Country meet, your kid doesn...
Under the Proportional Representation (PR) system of voting results for Cambridge elections will not be determined for about a week. Proportional Representation is a complicated system whereby voters list their choices in order of preference and candidates are elected by getting a certain quota of number one votes or redistributed surplus votes from weak or strong candidates...
...minute walk from "Tante Léonie's" across the Loir River (not to be confused with the Loire) takes the pilgrim to the Pré Catalan. The five-acre garden was created by Proust's uncle, a cloth merchant in Illiers, as a replica of the area in Paris' Bois du Bologne that bears the same name. The little lagoons, intricate patterns of shade trees, and the tiny lane lined with hawthorns (whose pink blossoms reminded Proust of his favorite dish, strawberries crushed in cream cheese) became Swann's park, and it is there that...
...author's, 90-year-old Philibert Louis Larcher. A retired Inspector General of National Education, Larcher has devoted the past 30 years to reminding the town of its Proustian heritage. Through his efforts, the Tante Léonie house was made a national monument and the Pré Catalan was preserved. He founded the Society of the Friends of Marcel Proust and the Friends of Combray. His monograph, The Essence of Combray, has been revised and reissued just in time to be snapped up by this year's hordes of cultists. He gives hours-long lectures...