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...chose to, the Queen, now 59, could abdicate at any time in favor of her 37-year-old son. But the only time in English history that any such parent-child transfer occurred was under duress: in 1327 rebellious nobles compelled the effete Edward II to hand on his crown to his young son, who became Edward III. The four other English abdications were also under pressure. Richard II and Henry VI were forced out by political rivals during the Wars of the Roses; James II was expelled in 1688 because he had converted to Roman Catholicism; and Edward VIII...
This process continues until nine candidates are selected for city council and six for the school committee (The seventh school committee member is the mayor). The transfer of votes theoretically goes down the list of all of the candidates, but it usually stops somewhere around...
Cambridge politicos have varied ideas on whether or not a slate affiliation helps or hurts a candidate. Lesser known slate candidates who do not make quota in the first round pull transfer votes from their more experienced associates...
...Gramm-Rudman amendment, a proposal designed to reduce the federal deficit to zero by 1991. The hastily drafted legislation, approved in the Senate by a 75-to-24 vote two weeks ago, calls for draconian spending cuts in many social programs and much of the military budget, and could transfer to the President a measure of Congress's power over federal appropriations. The amendment is attached to a bill to raise the Government's debt ceiling to more than $2 trillion. Without this increased borrowing power, the Treasury predicts, the Government will run out of money by Nov. 1. Under...
Oren W. Etzioni '86, who has lived in Israel, says volunteering for PAIR was a form of "individual patriotism." Etzioni says that his contribution will be to help transfer computer technology between America and Israel...