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...year-old Inman Square resident, whose 2005 runner-up finish in the council race was his first entrance into elective politics, adds the first strong challenger to the current field of nine incumbents. All councilors are elected city-wide through a single ballot on which voters rank nine of the candidates running in their preferred order...
...Google's home page has been subtly redesigned to reflect the changes, too. Type a query into the search box and results automatically appear in whatever form and rank the search engine determines to be most relevant - whether it's text, video or a map - something Google contends its rivals don't do. For example, a search for "Beatles" reveals the best content types and presents them below the search box. In addition to web pages, Google shows us the most relevant results for the band found in "Music," "News," "Groups," "Blogs" and "Images," which appear in tabs. The familiar...
...primary obstacles Saretsky has already begun to deal with is the Academic Index (AI), a league-wide admissions metric rooted in standardized test scores and class rank...
Created in the early 1980’s to maintain minimum levels of academic excellence in the Ivy League, the AI combines one’s highest SAT I and SAT II scores with high school class rank in order to assign each applicant a value ranging from 60 to 240. The league then sets three main controls: first, it establishes a universal floor, below which any candidate must also possess extenuating circumstances in order to be admitted; second, it mandates that the average AI of a given year’s aggregate recruiting class must fall within one standard...
...Iraqis oil traders, on the other hand, tell me they think they know exactly where the stolen oil is going - the militias appropriate it to arm and feed the rank and file. The same traders also tell me there's a lot more pilfered oil than the GAO acknowledges, and that the practice started as soon as Saddam fell. And why would anyone be surprised? Saddam's regime itself survived off stolen oil during the 12-year U.N. embargo...