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...contention to last night’s Cambridge City Council meeting. Following the resignation of Vice Mayor Brian P. Murphy ’86-’87 last month, Larry Ward was chosen to fill the vacancy on the council. Councillor Sam Seidel was elected by unanimous vote of the Council—though one councillor was not in attendance—to take over as Vice-Mayor at last night’s meeting. Both were then given the oath of office by City Clerk led by Margaret Drury. After the ceremonies, many Cambridge residents remained to debate...
...however, the Senate at long last passed the D.C. Voting Rights Act, granting the District’s heretofore symbolic congressperson a vote. With the House of Representatives and the White House likely to approve of the act, its passage is virtually guaranteed...
...online poll of the QSA membership, a slight majority of the 99 voters supported changing the name to QSA. But the vote of general members was not material to the actual name change, which only required unanimous agreement among board members...
...political dysfunction slopped over into student life.”Beyond making life uncomfortable for the political minority, the ideological divides among the faculty also hamstrung lateral hiring efforts for the two decades prior to Kagan’s deanship. Because a new candidate requires a two-thirds majority vote of approval in the faculty, professors who were ideologically opposed to new hires could and did grind the hiring process to a halt.In contrast, Kagan introduced an emphasis on open-minded thinking, welcoming academicians from across the political spectrum, and even hiring noted conservative and Bush administration attorney Jack...
...pictures from Pakistan's 2008 vote...