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...Both initiatives aim to increase voter participation among younger citizens, which has stagnated in previous election cycles...
...time I was a hearing officer [on the tax board], I assumed that I would probably never aim for an elected office," Demakis says...
Demakis won the race--by a narrow margin of 137 votes--and has held the post ever since, increasing his margin of victory each reelection period. And he says he is grateful that he took as long as he did to aim for the office...
They walked to the alarmed door at the back of the giant hall, leaving the sheets and the broken table to puzzle tomorrow's workers. Pausing at the threshold, he turned to aim his orange-stained glass at the statue's head. Before plastic struck marble, they were out the door. Members of the 35th Reunion Class still awake at that hour looked out their Canaday windows to see two dark figures turn the corner onto Prescott Street. Behind them, under the stained-glass windows of Annenberg Hall, John Quincy Adams shrieked out an alarm to a vast and empty...
Barak's natural toughness is supposed to be the antidote to that kind of violence. In recent days, for the first time, he has said explicitly that if Israel is attacked again, it will aim its retribution at Lebanese troops and at Lebanese-based Syrian forces, targets the Israelis have assiduously avoided. Barak asserted to TIME that those working to mobilize Hizballah fighters and Palestinian extremists include "Syrian generals--and not only generals," an apparent reference to Syrian intelligence agents in Lebanon who presumably would now fall within Israel's sights...