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...campus —including varsity athletes, international students, thesis writers, students conducting lab-based research and a limited number of other categories of students” will be allowed to stay in campus housing. Although we appreciate that some programming is better than none, it is still a shame that the programming for J-Term is so limited. The College should live up to its promise of providing extensive programming and the opportunity for students to do something productive over J-Term—a promise that came attendant to the calendar change...
...system is by no means mathematically perfect, and, like any other system, it can still be manipulated. The system does, however, provide solutions to a variety of problems with our current electoral system. It could prevent low turnout primaries from determining the general election slate of candidates while also not allowing every candidate who files for election a place on the ballot for November elections. If America had instant-runoff, a majority of abolitionists might have elected an abolitionist president in 1844, and a majority of liberals might have elected a liberal president in 2000. The winning candidate of every...
...exactly what made Hansen snap - and why she didn't seek help or pursue other avenues, like putting the boy up for adoption in the U.S. - is still a mystery. Hansen reportedly consulted a psychologist but never took her son in for a session. There's no evidence she sought help from her adoption agency, child-welfare authorities in Tennessee or even the well-regarded International Adoption Clinic at Vanderbilt University in nearby Nashville. The media that have descended on Hansen's home have not gleaned much insight. The boy, whom Hansen renamed Justin, did not attend school...
...been pushing for it." Front runners have traditionally shied away from debates, but the exposure may help Cameron finally convince the public to give him and his party sufficient backing for a conclusive victory. Andrew Hawkins, chairman of the polling organization ComRes, says that "too many people still don't know what the Conservative leader stands for. His rating on this measure has been static for the past two years at approximately 50-50." (See "David Cameron: U.K.'s Next Leader...
...House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee highlighted strains in the bond between London and Washington and suggested that Britons stop using the phrase "special relationship" to describe it. But if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, the U.S.-flavored British election campaign shows that Brit politicians still feel the love. "There is still a special relationship," Cameron tells TIME. "We shouldn't overstate it and we should remember we're the junior partners in it, and we should try and make it work well for both of us." From the evidence of the Westminster campaign trail, the two main...