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...where Castro has ruled a poor island for the last three decades, a job which most might consider difficult and more than a little dangerous, Liem is among a select group of Harvard professors with the cynosure of sinecures, a house master ship...
After more than three centuries of white domination, South Africans of every race cast ballots for the first time to select a postapartheid government. Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress party were expected to win handily. The vote was not without hitches. In Soweto, the huge black township outside Johannesburg, the line of eager voters grew to more than 4,000 people, while in some remote areas, government helicopters had to fly in thousands of extra ballots. But the chaos and violence that threatened to overwhelm the process early in the week had largely subsided by Thursday, as government...
...great election victory. Not only did more than $100,000 donated to Nixon's campaign end up in the bank account of one of the plumbers, but the entire fund-raising operation was marked by illegalities, irregularities and deceptions. Congress decided to investigate all this too. It chose a select committee to be headed by North Carolina's folksy Senator Sam Ervin...
...magazine's board of directors has organized a search committee to select Bethell's replacement, according to a University press release. Bethell will not begin his new position until a successor is found...
...progressive ideals rather than using them as cynical shield against white oppression. Recently she's been saying that her proposed system of cumulatitive voting "promotes a concept of racial group identity that is interest-based rather than biological." Guinier's proposed reforms aim to allow voters flexibility to "self-select their identities" and to vote with other voters who share the same interests, whether they are of the same race or not. Voters should be able to from "self-identified, voluntary constituencies that choose to combine because of like minds, not like bodies." Guinier advertises that cumulative voting will even...