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Conservatives have historically campaigned as independent candidates while the CCA-endorsed slates have benefited from proportional voting, a complex process whereby voters rank candidates in order of preference and votes are then distributed among the candidates...
When the Harvard women's volleyball team travelled to UMass, ranked eighth in the Eastern Region, the Crimson knew it would be facing some tough competition. And unfortunately for Harvard (10-7, 3-2 Ivy), the Minutemen demonstrated how, they earned that eighth rank...
...very long ago when there would be two or three or four ladder members as senior tutors," Lewis said. "As late as 1960s, there were nine senior tutors, and seven of them were professors of one rank or another...
...commands generally issued by a top Navy SEAL commando. But, though hardly coercive, the words landed a Navy captain in a cramped Washington Navy-Yard courtroom last week to face a court-martial. It was the first time such a proceeding had been brought against an officer of his rank since World...
...Nazi threat to "degenerate artists" such as himself became inescapably plain. The mere arrival of this diffident and somewhat reclusive man symbolized the passing of modernist leadership from Paris to Manhattan. Yet unlike the Surrealists, he had few American followers, and none who became painters of the first rank. Part of the paradox of Mondrian was that although he believed passionately in the "universal" character of his art, it could not be successfully imitated. But it was vulgarized on a million grid-design dresses, bedspreads and rolls of linoleum, and parodied in a thousand cartoons. This image of Mondrian...