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Still, council watchers said it is hard to predict whether Maher or Triantafillou will secure the spot...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Low Turnout Plagues City Elections; City Council Shakeup | 11/3/1999 | See Source »

...night, the city's star progressive, Katherine Triantafillou, was battling for the final spot on the council late last night with David P. Maher, a member of the school committee, and Bob Goodwin, a local parent. (Because of the city's proportional representation voting system, it is difficult to predict winners from preliminary results...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder and Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Slow Shift to Center Continues; Healy May Be on Way Out | 11/3/1999 | See Source »

...less a sage than Roger Kahn says that a sportswriter's greatest enemy is believing that he can predict the future...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dan-nie Baseball! | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

Rational choice, which grew out of the study of economics in the 1970s, works under the assumption that people only act in ways that benefit them. Rational choice scholars collect large pools of data and attempt to write mathematical models that will predict how government works...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Government Department Scrutinized for Faculty Rift | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...adult comment that exercise makes children grow faster I spent an entire afternoon walking to and fro in a vain attempt to become eight sooner than scheduled. The extent of my folly eventually dawned on me, but years later I discovered that Einstein's special theory of relativity does predict that an observer moving quickly with respect to the surroundings is, in effect, travelling into the future. Of course for the effect to have been perceptible I would have had to stroll at a speed approaching that of light...

Author: By Alejandro Jenkins, | Title: The Misanthrope Turns Twenty | 10/20/1999 | See Source »

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