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...Rice also announced Friday that she would make another detour from her planned itinerary. On Monday, after meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Sharon and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, and a memorial service marking the tenth anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Rice plans to stop in Amman, Jordan, to offer King Abdullah her condolences for Wednesday's suicide bombings, and also counter-terror assistance...
Under Cambridge’s Plan E form of government, voters rank City Council candidates in order of preference. Any candidate who wins over one-tenth of all first-place votes is immediately elected to the council, while candidates with the fewest number of first-place votes are eliminated from the race. The surplus votes of the winners, along with the votes of the eliminated candidates, are then transferred to the next candidates listed on the ballots. This process of redistributing votes continues until all nine seats are filled...
...matter is we’re not trying to get everybody in Cambridge to vote for us,” he says. “That’s not the way these elections work.” Under Cambridge’s electoral system, Green needs only one-tenth of the total votes cast in order to win a seat.Still, he says he’s more concerned with helping the city than playing politics.“I’ve always been more interested in fixing problems and making things better than I have been in running...
...winds were very shifty. Most schools don’t get a chance to practice in those conditions.” The two regattas were only half of the events the sailing team participated in over the weekend. The Crimson’s boat finished tenth at the ICSA Sloop National Championships in Richland, Michigan. Harvard also competed in Rhode Island in the Nickerson Trophy, the New England freshman championship, where it finished sixth. By winning the Schell Trophy, the coed team was able to qualify for the Atlantic Coast Championship in Maryland two weekends from now. The women?...
...SUVs and pickups won't guzzle quite so much fuel. GM says its 2007 full-size models will get 9% better mileage. The 2006 Ford Explorer boosts mileage 10%, thanks to improvements like a six-speed transmission. Chrysler is reducing the electrical demand of the rear defroster, gaining one-tenth of an m.p.g. Little things like that won't erase our energy woes, but they're a start...