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...cannot be denied that the central tenets of the bill are controversial and politically-divisive; the near-perfect party-line vote late last year demonstrated that Republicans stiffly oppose the current, Democrat-dominated version of the bill. The politically expedient action to take now is to remove the provisions that make the bill most intolerable to Republicans in hopes that some middle ground can be reached. While neither party will be completely satisfied with the final product, the important thing is that it will stand the greatest chance of codification and will be most palatable to the general public while...
...garden is currently in the design stage, but planting should begin this semester, according to Environmental Action Committee chair Katharine S. Walter...
...Boston's blog. She writes that passing the flame was “‘like’ no other experience I have ever had nor probably will have.” She was chosen as one of 20 Americans to carry the flame to highlight community action and living positively. Palfrey directs the Children's Hospital and, according to her Adams House bio, she has a "special interest in programs for children with disabilities...
...There are measures in place to prevent election fraud. Rohana Hettiarachchi, executive director of People's Action for Free and Fair Elections, says his group has already allocated additional local and international election monitors to sensitive polling districts. Sri Lanka has a well-established, compulsory national identity-card system used to verify voter rolls, and each candidate is allowed four representatives at each counting station. Hettiarachchi has appealed to the police and armed forces to uphold the law and maintain order, no matter what the result. "It is a crucial election, and their impartiality will matter a lot," he says...
...about 170,000 recently resettled war refugees, and another 108,000 displaced people who are still held in camps. The Rajapaksa administration has repeatedly said they will all have a chance to vote, but only 35,000 of the displaced have been registered according to officials at People's Action for Free and Fair Elections, the country's foremost election-monitoring body. In areas that were most firmly under LTTE control, there have been no elections or voter rolls in years. "There is a chance that a lot of people could be disenfranchised simply because they...