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...serve merely as spoilers, siphoning votes from candidates their supporters might otherwise back. But a little-noticed proposition approved last month by San Francisco voters offers a glimpse of how democracy may look in the future. Instead of casting their ballots for just one candidate, San Franciscans will now rank the candidates in most local races according to their first, second and third choices. If no candidate gets more than 50%, the last-place finisher is dropped, and his or her second-place votes are allocated among the remaining candidates. The process is repeated until one candidate eventually reaches...
...Harvard heavyweight crew swept No. 7 Brown this weekend and successfully defended the Stein Cup, meriting its No. 2 rank in the nation and continuing its roll through the East...
...News and World Report doesn’t rank lounges, but if they did, seventh-year chemistry grad student Timothy R. Dransfield thinks he knows who would be on top. “[The Harvard Department of Chemistry’s lounge] may very well be the best graduate student lounge in any chemistry department in the country,” Dransfield says. A large, colorful, metal-heavy room with with a pool table that students call “the center,” the new lounge in Mallinckrodt Laboratory is the product of a joint faculty-student project...
...does the U.S. rank in the international human-capital standings? That's a tricky question. Over time the American economy has shown more dynamism and sustained growth than just about any other. But if you look only at the performance of the average American high school student on international tests, you would think we were a nation of dim-witted dullards. What explains the paradox...
When then-Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett ’57 instituted the change in housing assignments from a system where blocking groups could rank their top four House choices to a completely randomized selection process in 1995, some worried the move would spell the end of House spirit and community...