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...elected by the students of Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges. Any student who has served on the council shall be eligible, providing they collect signatures from 100 undergraduates. Elections for presiding officer shall be held concurrently with the election of the representatives. If no candidate receives a simple majority, a run-off election shall be held between the two leading candidates...
Lockwood fell short of his goal and lost in a run-off election to former Vice Chair Kenneth...
...that any of them would win on the first ballot," Mandery says. A candidate must attain a simple majority to win the office. If no one wins a majority on the first ballot, the top candidates whose votes taken together add up to a majority will participate in a run...
...behind the counter says he predicts success for Chicago Frank's anticipating the run-off from Charlie's and hungry River Rats as his clientele. But Frank's isn't likely to lure too many Harvard students away from House grilles as long as it closes at 11 p.m., serves even its Basic Dogs for as much as $2.25 and fails to diversify its menu beyond wieners to include Polish sausage and cheeseburgers (which it is supposed to do shortly...
...vote-getters, members of different parties or not, advance to the final election. Edwards, once a hero to Cajuns and Blacks, garnered only 452,513 votes, or 28.5 percent. He had never lost a race before Saturday, and after the results were known, he declined to participate in a run-off with the number one vote-getter...