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Campaign, campaign, campaign!

Ravi Nigam learns the perils of coasting

by Eve Silberman

posted 5/14/2009

"I made a mistake,” admits Ravi Nigam. “I didn’t campaign.” The lawyer/engineer was widely expected to win a school board seat in this month's election. His only opponent, grad student Adam Hollier, announced a few weeks before the vote that he had withdrawn “for family reasons.”

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