Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Apr 13, 2015

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(1) Robert Hutton, A Billionaire Brings Polling to British Voters.
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... s-vote-in-key-seats

two consecutive paragraphs:

"In the past, voters in the 650 individual seats being contested in general elections had to rely on the previous result and broad trends to tell them which party was strong in their neighborhood. This year, that’s changed.

“The billionaire former Conservative Party treasurer, Michael Ashcroft, has published research into more than 100 constituencies where the May 7 election will be decided. That means voters in the tightest races know which parties have a real chance in their seats.

My comment:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: The numbers offer a guide for voters in the May 7 election.
(b) There is no need to read the rest.
(c) A campaigner-turned-official (stationed in Boston; KMT) said that in early 1990s Taiwanese was doing the polling in election districts (as opposed to national polling, the only polling available in UK until this year). He said the district polling was quite accurate.
(d) Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland consists of House of Lords and House of Commons. For House of Lords, "the number of members is not fixed."  Wikipedia
(e) House of Commons of the United Kingdom
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom#Members_and_elections

three consecutive paragraphs:

“The United Kingdom is divided into 650 constituencies, with 533 in England, 40 in Wales, 59 in Scotland, and 18 in Northern Ireland.

“General elections [by ‘first-past-the-post’] occur whenever Parliament is dissolved. The timing of the dissolution was normally chosen by the prime minister (see relationship with the Government above); however, as a result of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011, Parliamentary terms are now fixed at five years, except in the event of the Commons passing a vote of no confidence or an "early election" motion, the latter having to be passed by two-thirds majority.

“Conventionally, all British elections are held on a Thursday. The Electoral Commission is unsure where this convention arose, but dates it to 1931, with the suggestion that it was made to coincide with market day; this would ease voting for those who had to travel to the towns to cast their ballot.

(f) Due to decisions of US Supreme Court, a congressional district (which is represented by one representative of the House) has roughly the same population as any other. But it is not the case in UK, see list of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Kingdom_Parliament_constituencies

UK, though tries to limit population variation among constituencies.

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(2) Francesca Levy, Harvard’s Monopoly on the Case Study.
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... case-study-monopoly

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: The school has cornered the market with a product its rivals use
(b) You may not be interested in this, if you are not a business major.