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Ingersoll led the Ivy League with 1.14 blocks per set and averaged 2.81 kills per set—second-best on the team. Wu averaged 5.11 digs per set, good for third in the league, and led the team with 28 aces. Ingersoll will join current co-captain Miyoko Pettit as a leader of the 2010 squad...
...Radcliffe lightweights knew they had their work cut out for them facing the nation’s second-best crew. The Black and White didn’t let that fact damper its outlook going into the race...
...selection.” In the Harvard case, it is not hidden car qualities, but rather uncertain applicant motivations that force employers to bear all the risk of hiring a “lemon.” As a result, it is both the students and employers who face second-best outcomes in summer and job offers...
...objections still arise: A vote for a third-party candidate can counterproductively split votes with the elector’s second-best choice. For example, in the 2000 election, 38 percent of those who voted for Nader would have voted for Gore if Nader had not run, while only 25 percent would have voted for Bush. However, in taking away from Gore’s totals by casting their vote for the Green Party, Nader’s supporters may have prevented their second-best choice from winning the election; the Nader voters ensured that the candidate whose policies were...
Ignoring the mathematical inaccuracy of the notion that Nader took away enough votes to cost Gore the election, this counterargument poses a difficult choice for the voter. Undoubtedly, the more rational decision is to cast the vote for Gore and ensure that the second-best option takes office. But the principled one is to vote for Nader and the values he represents...