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Numbers released by former Election Commission Chair Brad A. Seiler ’10 yesterday evening suggested that Hayward and running mate Felix M. Zhang ’11 had lost the election by just 45 votes??the smallest margin of victory in a Council election in recent memory...
...initial tally of first-place votes, Hayward and Zhang recorded 1,594 votes??31 more first-choice selections than Bowman and Hysen—but none of the tickets garnered the required majority. At that point, Long-Johnson came up short, and the ticket’s 635 first-place votes were excluded from consideration. Their supporters’ second choices were then added to the vote counts of the other tickets...
...list of potential reasons for moderates to vote against the legislation, complicating reform’s chances of passing in the Senate.Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska, who is considered to be the most conservative Democrat in the Senate and one of the primary “swing votes?? whose whims shall dictate the fate of health insurance reform, said that “you could be sure I would vote against it” if the Senate bill does not contain language as strong as Stupak’s on the issue of publicly funded abortions...
...different schools in Rock Hard, a competition run in a joint venture between Veritas Records and Rolling Stone magazine. MTV will host news spots in the spring battle, which will span five night clubs and two and a half months. Crump said the winners were chosen based on online votes??which indicate the scope of a group’s fan base—and the input of judge Ethan B. Schiffres, a student at Harvard Law School who works with Recording Artists Project, which allows HLS students to provide pro bono legal services for local members...
...your typical all-American Joe: he’s proud of the fact that he is comfortable asking for Dijon mustard while campaign advisors suggest he take the regular yellow kind. But he also realizes, as much as anyone, that he needs to appear a certain way to win votes??that is, not as the former president of the Harvard Law Review.The irony is that the true American story is not just about facing obstacles, but triumphing over them. It’s not just about growing up in a single-parent family assisted by food stamps...