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...Alumni elect the governing boards of many colleges, but relatively few bother to vote. At Harvard, less than 10 percent of the 330,000 alums vote. More should; and they should vote for those candidates who have a strong interest in improving higher education, who can work cooperatively with others, who are open-minded, who are seriously interested in the issues higher education faces today, and who are willing to express their views and not simply rubber stamp whatever is presented to them. These are not necessarily those alums who are the biggest cheerleaders or the biggest donors to their...
Across Texas, over 100,000 Democrats gathered Saturday at county conventions - the second tier of the complicated three-step caucus process to select 67 delegates to the national convention - joining the 126 delegates chosen in the primary voting that same day. With her 51% win of the popular vote, Hillary Clinton won 65 delegates to Barack Obama's 61 in the actual primary. But late Saturday, his campaign declared it had 99 total delegates to Clinton's 94. Clinton's camp disputes that, and by Monday morning it appeared that Obama's lead had shrunk to three delegates...
...paper cups littered the floor, so the 25 members of Precinct 110 decided to caucus outside in a cavernous, covered delivery area behind the stage. By 1 p.m. Precinct 110 was embroiled in what would be an almost two-hour discussion on how they would conduct their delegate vote. Party rules prohibit secret ballots, and the group had decided to vote by writing their choice for a state convention delegate on a sheet next to the voter's name. But the sheet - drawn up by the precinct chairwoman, an Obama supporter - had listed the 9 Clinton precinct delegates first, followed...
...time initial official results were announced in an early morning broadcast on Monday, the Electoral Commission said the parliamentary seats that had been counted so far were split between the M.D.C. and Mugabe's ruling party. The M.D.C. are claiming that they're leading with 60% of the votes compared to 30% for Mugabe. Reporters were told by the M.D.C. on Monday that this gave them 96 seats in the House of Assembly. A party official said the results were based on vote counts posted on polling stations for 128 of the Assembly's 210 seats...
...Harare press conference Sunday, M.D.C. secretary general Tendai Biti announced, on the basis of predominantly urban results already in, a sweeping vote for his party, which is led by former trade unionist Morgan Tsvangirai. "We have won this election," said Biti. "The trend is irreversible." He said he was passing on results already posted publicly at local polling stations. Before announcing results Monday morning, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, which will collate the vote centrally, has demanded the police arrest those announcing regional results before it announces the national result. "Can you arrest someone because he is just repeating what...