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Only about 1000 Harvard students are registered to vote in Cambridge, but Sullivan plans to campaign vigorously at the University. He says the precinct that includes Harvard Yard has always been among the most fruitful...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: City Council Hopefuls Hit High Gear For Fall Campaigns | 9/17/1987 | See Source »

...conducted their first experiment in multicandidate balloting. In 5% of the country's roughly 52,000 districts, voters chose from a list of candidates that exceeded the number of available posts. Ironically, Gorbachev was not among that privileged handful. When he and his wife Raisa went to vote at Precinct No. 5 in central Moscow, their ballots offered no choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Moscow's Man in a Hurry | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

Frank E. Lockwood '89 is an American History concentrator. He served as a GOP precinct committeeman and was a Reagan/Bush volunteer...

Author: By Frank E. Lockwood, | Title: The Bubble is Burst | 12/10/1986 | See Source »

Michael Kennedy, announcing the first precinct results, told a crowd made mostly of volunteers that "we could have all let up after September 16, with good reason," but they fought a hard campaign anyway. He said volunteers had made 40,000 telephone calls, and had used more cars to bring voters to the polls than any other campaign in the state...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: 8th Congressional District Gives Kennedy a Landslide Victory | 11/5/1986 | See Source »

...MISCONCEPTION you might have about the dullness of Soviet life will be dispelled after viewing Red Square Blues, a continuing series about an overworked KGB precinct station. A typical episode has Captain Furrihatski interrogating black market hair-mousse purveyors and agonizing over his rocky affair with People's Defender Ida Konvictya...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: TV Guideski | 9/25/1986 | See Source »

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