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Cambridge uses the Hare proportional representation system, a method touted by John Stuart Mill as a means of enlarging "the marketplace of ideas" by ensuring minority representation...
Such are some of the bulletins to be gleaned from the second edition of the unabridged Random House Dictionary of the English Language. "A storehouse and mirror of the language," is how Editor in Chief Stuart Berg Flexner describes the new dictionary, and with its 315,000 entries, the twelve-pound volume amply lives up to the billing. Along with the publication, between 1972 and 1986, of four fat folios supplementing the Oxford English Dictionary, this is the most important dictionary venture since 1966, when Random House's first edition appeared...
...School at Quantico, Va., in his new, fleck-metal green sports car, a Shelby Cobra. North stood out right away, recalls Fellow Officer Scott Matthews. "He was hot, extremely hot . . . He was a very action-oriented individual, eager to get on with it." While at Quantico, North married Betsy Stuart in a traditional military ceremony, complete with an arch of crossed swords. He had met her on a blind date set up by his cousin when he was in his last year at Annapolis and she was working at Hecht's department store in suburban Maryland. At first, she refused...
...first time I watched Arena football I was totally shocked. I couldn't believe it when I saw Denver Quarterback Stuart Mitchell (a Cornell alumnus) throw the ball 10 feet into the net over his receiver's head. But what really surprised me was that the receiver and the defending cornerback both tried to catch the ball off the net behind the endzone...
...Stuart was not the only artist to profit from the emerging cult of Washington. After 1799, the imagery of the pater patriae as hero and then as demigod was being manufactured far and wide for the American market. Even Chinese painters produced touchingly naive apotheoses of Washington borne up ! to heaven on billowing clouds, rising through a shaft of light and surrounded with angels and grieving personifications of the young Republic, like a baroque saint...