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Most Americans have absolutely no clue as to the importance of the Electoral College. It is not the easiest thing to understand, but it is crucial: it allows all areas of the country to be represented. Every person's vote should count, but we are not a pure democracy, we...
Cambridge’s city councilors, however, are elected using an oddball system called Proportional Representation. Under this plan, councilors do not represent specific areas in the city. Instead, all candidates are pitted against each other on a citywide ballot. Rather than casting a single vote, Cambridge voters rank their top nine choices, and a candidate wins a seat on the council when he or she receives “quota,” defined as one-tenth of the votes cast plus one extra vote. The system is problematic because it allowed the defeat this spring of MIT alum...
Another key component to addressing piracy is the development of low-hassle, fairly priced alternatives to stealing. The Crimson editorial suggested that our industry is averse to embracing the full potential of the online film market. This simply isn’t the case. After all, the name of the...
Charlap himself is coming into bloom these days, after years of paying his dues as a musician's musician. His deepest ardor is for the works of classic songwriters like Cole Porter, George Gershwin and Richard Rodgers--the so-called Great American Songbook. In the annals of composition, he maintains...
Indeed, people are still surprisingly sexually conservative in our time: gay marriage and gay, period, in most conservative circles still represent an anathema; an antiquated, often religion-bound outlook on sexual behavior still abounds among the majority of Americans. Kinsey, which touches on several sexual taboos, is going to spark...