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Before the merging of the two committees this July, the Alpha and Iota Chapters were each separately allowed to elect up to twenty-four students, so the gender break-down was usually about even...

Author: By Benjamin D. Oppenheimer, | Title: 34 Men, 11 Women Make Phi Beta Kappa | 11/17/1995 | See Source »

...unfinished scheme to create a presidential republic has resulted in a state as fragile as the health of its chief executive. Unresolved constitutional questions remain about how the country's two-tier parliament should be formed. Although Russians will be going to the polls on Dec. 17 to elect deputies to the State Duma, the lower house, it still has not been decided whether the Federation Council, the upper house, should be a forum of regional leaders or senators elected directly by the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEEING IS NOT BELIEVING | 11/13/1995 | See Source »

Harvard students will join Cambridge residents at the polls today to elect a new City Council and School Committee in one of the most hotly contested races in recent history...

Author: By C.r. Mcfadden, | Title: Elections Held Today for City's Top Posts | 11/7/1995 | See Source »

Some semblance of PR still exists in New York City for the election of district school boards. It is also used in the Republic of Ireland to elect the National Parliament, according to Shepsle...

Author: By Aby. Fung, | Title: Tallying the Votes in a Cambridge City Election Is No Small Task | 11/7/1995 | See Source »

...seven weeks, Russian voters will elect a new parliament. The last time they did this, in December 1993, they voted strongly for conservative and ultranationalist politicians including Vladimir Zhirinovsky, demagogues who captured the national spotlight by denouncing Yeltsin's half-finished experiment with reform and by promising a return to the stability and prestige Russians enjoyed during the days of the old Soviet Union. In the past two years, Yeltsin has managed to stave off numerous attempts by parliament to derail Russia's halting transition to democratic pluralism. But if the balance tips even further in this next election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: END OF THE YELTSIN ERA? | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

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