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...demands that included the outright abolition of the monarchy before its fate could be determined by popular referendum. When the other parties - including the establishment Nepali Congress, the party of the country's current Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala - refused to accede to the Maoist agenda, the Maoists pulled out of the government and plunged the peace process into a rancorous impasse...
...often, where we need water, we find guns instead.' BAN KI-MOON, U.N. Secretary-General, urging world leaders to put the looming water-shortage crisis at the top of this year's global agenda...
...though Pilbeam says that the short duration of his tenure has not limited his agenda, Petersen, who watched Pilbeam abolish the Undergraduate Council’s five-year-old policy of reimbursing alcohol for undergraduate parties, said that he believed that the interim Dean’s decisions were rash...
However stillborn Bush's final agenda may be, though, he does have reason to hope for a ratings boost over the next 12 months. Even unpopular Presidents often leave on an upswing, thanks to the end-of-term focus on statesmanship and because they look good next to those scrambling to replace them. Bush has pretty much nowhere to go but up from his current 34% in the polls. The war is improving and it looks as if there will be a steady drawdown of troops over the next 12 months. And even if his diplomatic initiatives, like the Arab...
...Florida. But he's arguably the state's most unabashed cheerleader, and like many in the state - which is expected soon to pass New York as the nation's third most populous - he's weary of watching small electorates like Iowa and New Hampshire set the presidential nomination agenda...