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Under a unique proportional voting system, Cambridge voters can pick several candidates and rank their votes in order of preference. The leftover votes are then distributed to other candidates...
...problem, of course, is that for a couple of decades now, economic growth has made the rich richer but hasn't been trickling down much to the rank and file. Hence the two trends Clinton has long fretted over: stagnant middle-income wages and rising income inequality. You would think this bad news would be good news for Republicans. Tony Blankley, the spokesman for Newt Gingrich, wonders why Clinton is so determined to dwell on it. "If he is suggesting that he is politically impotent on this huge issue," Blankley has observed, "then he is opening himself...
According to Cambridge's system of propor: I representation, voters rank in order of preference as many of the 18 candidates as they desire...
Many of those collections rank among the best in the America if not the world, and have given Harvard museums the status they currently enjoy. From Europe, the Fogg logs over 60,000 prints, including over 300 by Durer, 200 by Rembrandt and another 300 by Goya. Its watercolors by Blake are unrivaled outside England, while its drawings from Gericault and David are the most comprehensive collections outside France...
...Boeing's growing practice of shifting skilled assembly-line work from U.S. plants to China in order to boost sales to that country. Says George Kourpias, president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers: "I'm running the Boeing strike, and there's an excitement in the rank and file I haven't seen in years...