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Cambridge's unusual voting system reinforces the need for a unified slate. Under proportional representation (P.R.), the voters rank all candidates in order of preference to prevent a majority from controlling all the seats. The votes are tabulated according to number one choices, with the result that any sizeable group may elect a representative. An organized slate of candidates is a good strategy under P.R. because the slate can pick up transfer votes--lower choices of a voter whose first choice candidate has already been elected or eliminated...
Harvard officials justify their role in the Cambridge community by pointing to Harvard and MIT, the city's largest employers. It is estimated that the two universities spend more than $80 million each year and rank as the third and fourth largest tax payers. Harvard pays $1,533,000 in property taxes and $507,000 in lieu of taxes. The figures may rank Harvard as one of the top ten tax payers, but it is not enough for those who see nothing but Harvard buildings sprawled over the some 20 acres it owns in Cambridge...
Thomas Bridge '79, manager of the Glee Club, said last week that the five finalists will then visit Harvard to conduct the various groups. The search committee will rank the candidates, and sent the rankings to the Music Department...
Castro was forced to recognize his sill; Che became the twin commander of the revolutionary army. Later he would become Minister for Economics and a commandant, the Cuban army's highest rank. He was not suited for the former; the vagaries of international finance are not readily grasped by a young man, particularly an angry young man. The Cuban revolution now finished, Che abandoned the work of a government official, and prepared for the Bolivian expedition, with Fidel's help...
Though The Widower's Sons falls far short of that earlier mark, it still captures the individual class-struggle that is Sillitoe's strength. His latest book deals with William Scorton, a sargeant major's son, who through relentless work and discipline, rises to the rank of colonel and marries a brigadier's daughter. England's Great Depression era army becomes his life, starting when his widowed father drills him in cartography at the age of seven and ending with the disintegration of his civilian marriage over 30 years later...