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...said Council candidate Leland Cheung, a student at the Harvard Kennedy School.Both Decker and other incumbents acknowledge the difficulty of being elected as a write-in candidate.“Running a write-in campaign is going to be immensely challenging, especially with Cambridge’s complicated election system,” said Councillor Craig A. Kelley.Under the City’s single-vote-transfer proportional-representation system, each voter ranks nine candidates for the Council, including write-ins. Candidates who are ranked first on ten percent of ballots are declared elected. Any extra ballots they receive beyond...
...We’ve got four or five seniors at those positions who know our system and are talented football players, and it’s just their turn,” Crimson coach Tim Murphy says...
...We’ve been around a long time, and we know the system really well,” Barnes says. “This group has played a lot together, so really in terms of the secondary, as far as [leadership] goes, it hasn’t been a big deal...
...prominent research universities are collaborating to make a major push for open access to scholarly research. The five-member compact on open-access publication, signed on Tuesday by Harvard, Dartmouth, Cornell, MIT, and the University of California at Berkeley, marks a growing consensus on the need for a fairer system of online scholarship. The agreement on open-access publication makes current scholarly research available for all readers online at no cost. Though the new open-access model of online publication eliminates traditional subscription and processing fees, it maintains essential features of journal publication such as peer review...
...Vidim, head of the lower house defense committee and a lawmaker for Topolanek's Civic Democrats, said the removal of the defense system was a blow to Czech interests. "The first feeling is a great disappointment and disgust over Mr. Obama's cowardice," Vidim said, according to the website of the daily Lidove Noviny. "He performs endless concessions, for example towards Russia. I consider it a betrayal of allies." (Read a Joe Klein blog post on the scrapping of antimissile defenses...