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...fact, Myers had more first choice votes than Graham, but because the proportional method involves transferring votes from one candidate to another, Graham won the council's ninth seat...
...active opponent of U.S. policy in Central America. -- BOBBY SEALE, cofounder of the Black Panthers, studies and teaches at Temple University in Philadelphia. He has published a book on barbecuing. -- SIRHAN SIRHAN, assassin of Robert F. Kennedy, was sentenced to death, later reduced to life imprisonment. He lost his ninth bid for parole in May 1987. -- TOMMIE SMITH, U.S. track star and Black Power protester at the Mexico City Olympics, is a physical-education and health instructor at California's Santa Monica College. -- TINY TIM (Herbert Khaury), falsetto-voiced pop entertainer, continues to sing and record. He is divorced from...
...second half, the Crimson limited Froehlich to eight points and found its offensive game. Beth Wambach's 19 points and Jen Mazanec's 12 helped pace Harvard to its ninth consecutive win versus Cornell...
...style system after the 1949 revolution, but the fledgling effort began to unravel during Chairman Mao's "anti-rightist" political campaign in the late 1950s. What little jurisprudence survived was virtually swept away during the tumultuous Cultural Revolution (1966-69), when lawyers were persecuted as members of "the stinking ninth category" and a Red Guard battle cry was "Smash laws into smithereens...
...problem is not just large numbers of people who are insufficiently educated. Never before have the majority of American jobs placed so many demands on employees. To compete effectively, the average American worker today must employ skills at a ninth-to-twelfth-grade level, in contrast to the typical fourth-grade standard during World War II. "It's not that people are becoming less literate," points out Irwin Kirsch, a senior research psychologist working for the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J. "It's that we keep raising the standards...