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...design of the system--where candidates engage in a nationwide relay race for primary votes--has skewed states' influence, Samuel P. Huntington, professor of Government, says that primary overkill "makes the nomination of a president unduly influenced by the timing of primaries and by a lot of fortuitous circumstances--like what goes on in a lot of small states that choose delegates early, like Iowa and New Hampshire...
...light of the constant political repression and the continued violation of human rights, we feel it important that both the United States Government and Harvard University do everything in their power to relay to the Pinochet government the view that an end to human rights abuses and a complete restoration of democracy is imperative. Dale J. Benos, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Physiology Jonathan Glass, M.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine Beth Israel Hospital
...extremely difficult to imagine track at Harvard without Murphy running. Over the past three years he has been a major force on the team, collecting a room-full of awards, including last year's individual heptagonal cross-country championship, All-American honors in the two-mile relay in 1979, a Millrose Games record in the same event, and the captainship of all three track seasons this year. His unique bow-legged stride, never-fail kick, and sense of humor have become legend...
Nevertheless, Gorton, 52, is running almost even in the polls with Magnuson, partly because of an issue that he tends to run around rather than confront directly: the incumbent's age. The Republican organized a 62-mile relay run from Seattle to the state capital of Olympia to file his election papers, running nine of the miles himself. The contrast with the portly Magnuson, who now walks with a shuffle and has a hearing problem, was obvious. Seated in his state office, surrounded by pictures and mementos of the eight Presidents with whom he has served, Magnuson says...
Randolph almost tallied the tying run for the Yanks in the eighth on a Bob Watson double to left, but a strong relay from George Brett cut down the fleet-footed second baseman...