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...president of the Harvard Stand-Up Comedy Society. and a Crimson columnist “Roger is hoping to cast the UC process in a more humorous light.” said Petri, “One of our main concerns is pulling the joke vote.” The other ticket is led by a senior, Michael C. Koenigs ’09, who served as the president of Harvard-Radcliffe Television, which runs “On Harvard Time,” writes for Let’s Go travel guides, and currently leads the Harvard Hooligans blog...
...Cambridge, Mass., and the oldest continuously published daily college newspaper. It chooses its leaders through an election process known as “the turkey shoot,” in which all outgoing executives are invited to participate. A successful candidate must receive at least 75 percent of the vote. Other newly-elected leaders include: Aditi Balakrishna ’10 and Christian B. Flow ’10, associate managing editors Aparicio J. Davis ’10 and Thomas J. Lawless ’10, associate business managers Joshua J. Kearney ’10 and Beryl...
...regional voting in Venezuela on Sunday was ostensibly about gubernatorial and mayoral contests. But for the past decade, every election held in the Western hemisphere's richest oil nation has boiled down to one thing - a referendum on left-wing President Hugo Chávez. The balloting this time was no different. The bottom line: Did Chávez's party win big enough for him to rebound from a stunning defeat in last year's constitutional plebiscite? That vote reaffirmed the presidential term limits that Chávez had hoped to eliminate - and he needed a huge win this...
...state governorships, including Chávez's home state of Barinas, on Venezuela's poor llanos, or plains, where the president's brother Adan held off a strong challenge from a breakaway Chávista candidate. The PSUV also took about two-thirds of the total national vote and kept the opposition from winning the seven or eight states it needed to stun Chávez. If the radical, anti-U.S. firebrand showed anything, it's that his red-beret power and popularity are relatively intact...
...will be very difficult for Royal supporters to obtain any Floridian-style recounts - much less win an entirely new vote. That means Aubry, a former Labor and Social Affairs minister and architect of France's now-defunct 35 hour work-week, becomes the first female leader in PS history. Her objective in that post: constructing a Socialist platform rooted in more traditionally leftist policies to win back voters who flocked to Green and Communist parties after years of the PS's centrist drift. She then hopes to build a coalition of all leftist parties to finally mount a challenge...