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...time no less. This is a result of both the country and the states’ inability to institute effective election reform. States must streamline election procedures; technical glitches of the 2000 election should no longer be utilized in any state. Before the 2008 election, the U.S. government must amend the election process to ensure that campaigns are spending money on reaching out to voters—not on arguing over ballots long after the votes have been cast...
...time no less. This is a result of both the country and the states’ inability to institute effective election reform. States must streamline election procedures; technical glitches of the 2000 election should no longer be utilized in any state. Before the 2008 election, the U.S. government must amend the election process to ensure that campaigns are spending money on reaching out to voters—not on arguing over ballots long after the votes have been cast...
...seemed to crumble last week, when L. Paul Bremer III, former top U.S. official in Iraq, told a West Virginia audience that "we never had enough troops on the ground" to prevent the looting and chaos that wracked Baghdad after the U.S. invasion last spring. Bremer later scrambled to amend his remarks, contending that whatever the shortfalls last spring, the U.S. now had sufficient numbers in Iraq. But his comments emboldened critics like Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry who blast the Administration for mismanaging the war, and added to nervousness about the military's high-stakes offensive to seize control...
...expected positions, the Republicans are the ones favoring radical changes to the status quo in all sorts of situations. Republicans now want to remove large numbers of troops from Germany and South Korea, democratize the Middle East, follow the “Bush doctrine” of preemption, and amend the constitution to ban gay-marriage. While not textbook “liberal” positions, these policies are nonetheless very serious changes to the status quo. “Liberal” can have all sorts of different meanings, but in modern American parlance it has come to denote...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) administrator who worked on the review says they regret not giving the working groups more time to amend the draft before finalizing...