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...Instead, all candidates are pitted against each other on a citywide ballot. Rather than casting a single vote, Cambridge voters rank their top nine choices, and a candidate wins a seat on the council when he or she receives “quota,” defined as one-tenth of the votes cast plus one extra vote. The system is problematic because it allowed the defeat this spring of MIT alum and students’ rights activist Matt S. DeBergalis—despite the fact that he received more first-place votes than two of the re-elected incumbents...
...When all is said and done, Dylan will probably have cost the UC less than $10,000, which is less than one-tenth of our Committee Fund,” said Mahan...
American schools took seven of the top 10 slots in the results, published in last Friday’s issue of The Times Higher Education Supplement. The three other schools in the top 10 were Oxford, at fifth, Cambridge at sixth, and ETH Zurich in Switzerland at tenth. The top 20 included schools from Australia, China, Japan and Singapore. There were a total of 29 countries represented in the 200 universities ranked...
...Switzerland. The Court of Arbitration for Sport, in a case brought by South Korean gymnast Yang Tae Young, decided that it would set a dangerous precedent to withdraw Hamm's medal from the Summer Olympics in Athens, despite a scoring error that cost bronze medalist Yang a crucial one-tenth of a point, which would have been enough to win him the gold...
...Rand’s most amusing memories from his time with the Electras took place during a performance at Concord Academy, an all-girls school in Massachusetts. At the end of their tenth song, “Rawhide” by Duane Eddy, the band suffered what was for them a major embarrassment—the rumbling noise of unintentional feedback sounded from the stage...