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...returned without gaining any ground, 4-2 losers to Rensselaer. This weekend, the Crimson won’t have another chance to pass ECAC leader Clarkson, but it will have an opportunity to boost its already-strong non-conference record with a Saturday night game at Vermont. The Catamounts rank seventh in the Hockey East conference, one spot ahead of the Boston University squad that Harvard beat earlier in the season. If the Crimson is in need of an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament in March, a win over Vermont could provide the non-conference result...
...possibility of overtaking the top rank in women’s hockey looms large this weekend for the No. 2 Harvard women’s hockey team. The Crimson (9-0-0, 9-0-0 ECAC), currently trailing UNH in the national poll, is set for a weekend of non-league action against No. 10 UConn (11-3-1, 4-2-1 Hockey East) at Bright Hockey Arena tonight at 7 p.m. and Providence (6-6-2, 4-2-1) Saturday night in Providence, R.I.But what most Crimson skaters can taste right now is not the prospect...
...Under the UC’s system, known as instant-runoff voting, students rank their preferred candidates instead of voting for a single one. If no ticket wins a majority of the first-place votes, the candidates with the least votes are eliminated and their votes redistributed until a victor is ultimately chosen...
Instead, the UC uses a system where voters are allowed to rank their preferred candidates instead of voting for a single one—a system that many experts say better represents voters’ true preferences...
...mediocre ranking reflects mixed performance. While funding is allocated relatively well along international guidelines, much of the country's aid is tightly earmarked for specific projects or comes as physical goods instead of cash - fine for those projects, but a big constraint on how recipients can respond to emergencies and unplanned events. The U.S. scores high grades collaborating with non-profit organizations, and excellent grades promoting accountability - second only to the E.U. But it's bottom of the pack in implementing international humanitarian and human rights laws, having refused to ratify key international treaties. Survey responses - though generally more favorable...