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...Delegates??representing a wide range of ages, socioeconomic statuses, and occupations—attended the Climate Congress in order to provide specific recommendations to the City Council for how residents, businesses, and institutions can adopt more environmentally friendly practices...
...allows these students—our delegates??to think beyond their nationality, their ethnic identity, and their comfort zone for better understanding,” Liu wrote in an e-mailed statement. “HPAIR’s goal is to broaden people’s perspectives about Asia and its relation to the world...
...super, regular “delegates.” These are the John Does and Jane Smiths whom Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have been publicly battling for across the country. Votes are collected in Democratic caucuses and primaries and candidates are awarded “delegates?? based on how many votes they receive. These delegates arrive in Denver on Aug. 28 and vote for either Senator Obama or Senator Clinton, depending on which candidate won their district. Whichever candidate receives at least 2,025 votes at the convention becomes the nominee...
...Let’s break that number down: a magic majority of 2,025 means that there are 4,049 total votes, 3,253 of which are “delegates??—awarded by popular voting—and 796 of which are “superdelegates.” In most elections since 1972, the year that the Democratic nominating process began to be democratized, one candidate dominated the caucuses and primaries so much that superdelegates were irrelevant; a candidate could collect 2,025 votes at the convention just from delegates...
...Government professor and human rights expert, Michael G. Ignatieff, lost his bid for the leadership of Canada’s Liberal Party in a surprise upset on Saturday. Stéphane Dion, a former professor at the University of Montreal, took the party leadership with 54.7 percent of the delegates?? votes, effectively ending Ignatieff’s chances of becoming prime minister if the Liberal Party takes back Parliament in the next election. Ignatieff—a prominent public intellectual who earned a PhD in history from Harvard in 1976—left his position as director...