Word: question
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...upcoming Cambridge City Council elections make us question America's electoral politics, already dearly deserving scrutiny. Municipal elections in Cambridge operate on a system of proportional representation, which in its simplest conception dictates that representation in elected government should reflect not merely the majority will, but a portion of the vote in proportion to its size. Cambridge relies upon a particularly intricate system to achieve this end: candidates are ranked by voters and their preferences tallied in a number of successive counts. Those candidates who surpass a predetermined quota are elected, and the votes are redistributed appropriately for subsequent counts...
...like to see and live the world with such vistas opening everywhere and in everything--in time. Whether a practice or an object, I like to pick it up and see its history, its predecessors, its equivalents, and to question obsolescence as often as possible. It's not retro or "classic," it's not Luddite, it's not fetishization or nostalgia, nor noodling trivia-mongering, nor slavish creative anachronism...
...your castle on a sidewalk? You, too, can do this. But let's draw that closer to our original point: as well as the time that swirls around everything, the history that should be inescapable we sadly can lose in the blister-wrapping on everything. Why not question why everything is so, how it was otherwise so, and perhaps toss off some universals along...
During the open question period, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Reverend Peter J. Gomes asked the only question of the afternoon...
Often, those who have given generously to Harvard are used to recruit other donors of their caliber. They wine them, dine them and then--eventually--pop the question...