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After six weeks of trying to elect a mayor, the Cambridge City Council has narrowed the candidates down to Councillors David P. Maher, Kenneth E. Reeves ’72, and Henrietta J. Davis, with Maher leading the pack with four votes over the past three election sessions...
...Freshman Kenneth Wang Kan got the ball rolling with wins in both the long jump and triple jump, earning marks of 6.93 and 14.37 meters, respectively. Classmate Jeremy Gilmour placed first in the 3,000-meter run, while junior Brian Hill and co-captain Justin Grinstead finished 0.57 seconds apart in the 500-meter run to grab first and second place...
...Wall Street pay was again in the spotlight in Washington. The House Committee on Financial Services held a hearing on executive compensation. Harvard professor Lucian Bebchuk, who recently consulted pay czar Kenneth Feinberg in setting compensation limits at bailed-out firms, said Congress should regulate and "place limits" on Wall Street pay. Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz told the panel that bank pay incentivized traders and other employees to take the excessive risks that contributed to the financial crisis. And corporate-governance expert Nell Minow asserted that Wall Street firms had done little to change the pay practices that...
...Rookie Kenneth Kan Wang also enjoyed an individual win, jumping 6.72 meters to take the long jump by a healthy margin, and junior Brian Hill placed second in his first 400-meter race of the indoor season...
...neither extreme came to pass - partly because only 2.4% of the population checked more than one race. Nonetheless, the instruction to "mark one or more boxes" signified a major turning point in how the Census sets the parameters for national discussion. In the words of former Census director Kenneth Prewitt, we are now moving from "a justice-based classification system" to "an identity-based classification system." If not revolution, that is at least evolution. (See the world's most influential people in the 2009 TIME...