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...Cambridge, Mass., and the oldest continuously published daily college newspaper. It chooses its leaders through an election process known as the “turkey shoot,” in which all outgoing editors are invited to participate. A successful candidate must receive at least 75 percent of the vote. The other newly-elected leaders include: Laurence H. M. Holland ’09 and Samuel P. Jacobs ’09, associate managing editors Patrick R. Chesnut ’09 and Jake G. Cohen ’09, arts chairs Aditi Banga ’09 and Samantha...
...similar amendment to the state constitution—which would have limited marriage rights to heterosexual couples—was defeated last June in the Massachusetts legislature, falling five votes short of the 50 required to have the amendment put to a public vote in November...
...really, really anxious when gay marriage came up—whether it would be on the popular vote ballot” said Michelle C. Kellaway ’10, Community Chair of the Harvard Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance. “After that battle was won, I breathed a sigh of relief, and I’m not worried about it anymore...
...legislators, or one quarter of the members of the Massachusetts House and Senate, vote to approve a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in legislative sessions in both 2010 and 2011, the measure could appear before voters in the 2012 elections...
...country constantly on the verge of civil war and invasion does not need two contending governments. But that is the dangerous scenario facing Lebanon this week. On Wednesday, members of the country's parliament are scheduled to vote on a replacement for Emile Lahoud, whose term ends midnight Friday. By unwritten agreement in this deeply sectarian nation, the President must be a Maronite Christian (the Prime Minister must be Sunni; the speaker of the assembly Shi'ite). Lahoud was an advocate of the policies of neighboring Syria, which until 2005 was the overlord of Lebanon...