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...accordance with Cambridge’s proportional representation election system, the Election Commission reviewed the ballots that were awarded to Murphy in the 2007 election and chose his replacement from the candidate with the highest ranking once Murphy and other ineligible candidates were eliminated...
According to Robert Winters, a political commentator and professor at the Harvard Extension School, the system was designed to ensure that the political dynamics of the council are maintained in the event of a vacancy...
...English department’s new curriculum was approved on Tuesday and will be introduced next fall. Under the revamped system, large surveys of British literature will no longer be mandatory, and will be replaced by smaller discussion-based courses, grouped in four common-ground categories: “Arrivals,” “Diffusions,” “Poets,” and “Shakespeares?...
...approached through the expansion of employer plans. But the group - so far on the friendliest of terms - has disagreed on whether coverage should be mandated or simply offered to all individuals, how much money is needed and what the proper role of government plans should be in the private system. And they haven't even gotten to some of the tougher parts yet, like how to make cuts in Medicare and Medicaid. (See pictures of health care in Iran...
...Trading on Zimbabwe's volatile stock market made Wall Street's dubious derivatives look like Treasury bills. With an economy locked out of the global financial system, daring foreign hedge funds and institutional investors saw this obscure market - much like emerging investment funds in wine and fine art - as an opportunity to diversify, or seek "exotic beta," in finance parlance. Though real returns may occasionally hit the high double digits, says Shumba, investing here can seem like playing Russian roulette: the exchange is highly fickle and illiquid, with a total market capitalization that has fluctuated tenfold in the past year...