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Under this system, candidates for council and school committee do not represent a specific district but are elected at large, Voters rank candidates in order of preference--first choice, second choice...
...museums now have an endowment of about $80 million and a collection of over 140,000 art works. And according to Walsh, they rank among the world's top four university museums, rivaling Oxford, Cambridge and Yale...
Harvard's duo of sophomore goalies, Scott Salisbury (0.43 goals-against average) and Reilly (0.92), rank first and fourth, respectively, in the Ivy goalie statistics...
...Franciscans, however, were not ready for burial. They zealously pitched in to what must rank as one of the greatest comebacks in history. By April 23, plans for the first new downtown building were published, and others followed at a dizzying pace. They moved so fast that within weeks about 1,000 makeshift saloons were doing business and political fighting had broken out again. Ex- Mayor (also ex-Governor and ex-U.S. Senator) James Phelan, who lost a fortune in the disaster, led an attack on the corrupt municipal government with one hand and with the other helped...
...appointment is unique for another reason. Mas-Colell, a Spanish national with permanent resident status in the U.S., is considered a minority by the federal government's affirmative action criteria. There are no other minorities with the rank of associate dean or higher...