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...candidates. The Rev. Pat Robertson went for Giuliani; the National Right to Life Committee came out for Thompson; Bob Jones III and Paul Weyrich endorsed Romney. Few believed that Huckabee, the ordained Southern Baptist who actually seemed to be one of them, could win. And then, lo and behold, rank-and-file Evangelicals went off and lined up in unexpected numbers for the former Arkansas Governor. The falcons heard the falconers - and then flew off in a different direction. It's another sign of a party whose power structure has uncoupled from the people who put it in power...
...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...