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...ranked first on ten percent of ballots are declared elected. Any extra ballots they receive beyond the ten percent quota are redistributed to the candidates marked next in preference on those excess ballots.The count continues with the elimination of those candidates who received fewer than 50 first place rankings and the redistribution of their ballots to other candidates according to the next preference marked. After each, the candidate with lowest number of votes is eliminated, and ballots are again redistributed. Cambridge is the only city in the country that uses this electoral system.“Marjorie, though she?...
...junior, the wide receiver has cemented his place as one of Harvard football’s top offensive threats, but getting there wasn’t always easy...
...Beijing is always a strange place ahead of important occasions. In the weeks preceding recent Communist Party Congresses and last year's Olympics, the number of security forces on the streets doubled, controls on the Internet tightened, and dissidents and other potential troublemakers were rounded up or confined to their homes. But preparations and precautions for the 60th anniversary parade - when some 200,000 soldiers and a supporting cast of students and other civilians will march past a reviewing stand in Tiananmen Square - have far exceeded those undertaken for past events. (Read "An Olympic-Sized Security Blanket...
...prevent Iran from developing into a nuclear threat. The Russians also made the missile shield a central issue in negotiations with Washington over a new arms-control deal to replace the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. That treaty expires in December, and Obama has made putting a new treaty in place by then a priority of his Russia policy. (Read "Anders Fogh Rasmussen: The Reformer...
...when news was confirmed that the U.S. had scrapped plans to place part of a missile-defense shield in a military zone near the town, Jan Neoral, the mayor of Trokavec and a vocal anti-missile-shield campaigner, announced with uncharacteristic understatement that President Barack Obama's decision was "a satisfaction." (Read "Obama Shelves U.S. Missile Shield: The Winners and Losers...