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...defines "vote power" as the probability that your vote will break a tie and directly cause one candidate to be elected over another. Ridiculous as this definition may seem, when you watch the election returns in November you will realize that unless the popular vote in your state is split right down the middle with one vote more to the candidate you voted for, your vote has done nothing but impotently increment the one's digit in your chosen candidate's column. So the better a voting system, the greater probability of a deadlock broken by your vote, making your...
Demonstrating the inconsistency that has plagued its season, the Harvard's women volleyball team split a weekend road trip with a loss to Cornell and a win over Columbia...
...product of a broken home, I can vouch for the thesis that the harm done by divorce is long lasting. My parents split up when I was six years old. At age 51, I have still not come to terms with it, and I doubt I ever will. It should not be taken for granted, however, that all children of divorce end up divorced themselves. Growing up, I vowed to provide my own children with something I was myself denied--a stable home in which both biological parents are present. Of my life's proudest accomplishments, I rank...
...Split Confusion...
...saying for them." But director Beth Newhall '02 offers a hint to bewildered readers: It's supposed to explore how media outlets like television can interfere with self-discovery and the formulation of identity. Newhall promises to sidestep the "heavy-handed and pretentious" and keep things light, but whether Split Confusion succeeds may depend more on whether Colby has found anything new to say within the well-trodden genre of zany comedies with serious undercurrents. In any case, if its predecessors in the healthy tradition of absurdist drama are any indication, Split Confusion should induce its own share of laughter...