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Scheir said Cambridge will use punch card balloting for all upcoming federal and state elections, but not city elections, where paper ballots will still be the rule. Cambridge uses the proportional voting system, whereby voters rank in order of preference the candidates on the ballot. "It is a more complicated ballot." Scheir said. "The city council won't agree to [punch card ballots] until they see the system is successful for other elections...
Dramatically muddy and dubiously humorous, Taming shares with The Merchant of Venice a modern stigma for its Elizabethean prejudices. If, as some feminists suggest, pornography is anything that shows women in a degrading light, Taming would rank up where with Debbie does Dallas. A large part of the play's humour concerns the attempt of a man to turn his new wife into the slave of his will, not a very funny subjects to the feminists fighting for the positive portrayal of women...
...senior co-captains of the Harvard field hockey team, Mainelli and O'Neill this afternoon will finish up a pair of careers that rank among the most distinguished in Crimson field hockey history...
...want to see Canadian wages get too far out of line with American pay rates and was eager to get U.S. workers back on the job. Last week, after GM made a new pay proposal, the union accepted the offer, which must still be ratified by the rank and file...
Americans liked to defend their forthright manners in those heady early years by insisting that they represented the new democracy's rejection of class-ridden Europe. Thomas Jefferson made a point of receiving foreign diplomats and all other White House visitors without any distinctions of rank, which led to a scramble for seats that he called the "rule of pell-mell." "When brought together in society," Jefferson wrote in a memo to his Cabinet, "all are perfectly equal, whether foreign or domestic, titled or untitled, in or out of office." ("Nowadays," Judith Martin observed in the course of giving...