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...Hitler's Willing Executioners (Knopf). In the year's most talked about book, Harvard historian Daniel Jonah Goldhagen argues that the Holocaust should be blamed not just on the Nazi faithful but also on ordinary Germans. His evidence of widespread cruelty toward Jews by rank-and-file German soldiers seems irrefutable; his explanation for it has produced brisk debate on the source of human inhumanity...
Turner issued a challenge: rank the biggest givers instead of the biggest getters. Last week Microsoft's online magazine Slate took him up, launching the Slate 60, a list of the largest charitable donations in the country by families or individuals gathered from publicly available sources. These are numbers, and deeds, well worth highlighting. Last year Americans gave a record $143.9 billion to charity, with more than 70% of households contributing. The richest one-half of one percent of households were responsible for 11% of all giving...
...example, if you rank someone not in this group first, and list no second choices, your vote will be lost if and when candidate X exits the race. If however, you rank candidate X first and then Kaufman second, Kaufman will become your first place vote upon candidate X's exit. It is therefore imperative that you strongly consider voting for a candidate who has a fighting chance of going the distance...
This of course becomes tricky when you are deciding between the top five candidates. I would therefore suggest that you consider who you do not want to be president and rank the other strong candidates before that person. Crude though it may be, such a strategy will most likely ultimately pay off to help elect the president that the majority of the campus can agree...
...course, the best way to avoid a skewed outcome is to rank all candidates, one through 12. No matter how you decide to vote, please just remember that the only way the council can ever become a more effective student government is through your participation processes such as this election. --Wes Gilchrist '97 The writer is a two-year councillor and one-time presidential candidate