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Only Penn’s defensive line could possibly rank with Harvard’s dominating cast of characters...
Once a candidate fulfills the quota of votes needed to win, the extra votes are reallocated to the next candidate. Because the extra transfer votes are randomly chosen and may rank different candidates second, they could change in a recount, altering the outcome...
That’s where the “achievement index” comes into play. Developed by Valen E. Johnson, a professor of statistics at Duke University, the achievement index is a system of ranking students that takes into account how each student performs relative to the people in his course, and how the people in his course performed in their other courses. Johnson compares it to the rankings in college sports, which take into account the difficulty of the schedule in addition to the team’s record. The Harvard football team is a great team...
Only Penn’s defensive line could possibly rank with Harvard’s dominating cast of characters...
...urging Ariel Sharon to come up with a long-term peace plan of his own, rather than be forced to respond to anyone else's. The Jerusalem Post reported mounting domestic opposition to a Sharon-Peres peace proposal from both the left and the right. The Labor Party rank-and-file is pushing for unilateral separation, while Sharon's Likud want no more talk of a Palestinian state. But the discussion is irrelevant, says Haaretz correspondent Akiva Eldar, because there is no peace plan. Nor will there be. "The gaps between Sharon and Peres concerning the final status settlement...