Word: backdoors
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Calderon finally got his reform through by forging an alliance with the moderate wing of Lopez Obrador's party, some of whom have accused the leftist leader of being too authoritarian and confrontational. Following a series of backdoor meetings, the majority of leftist lawmakers not only ignored calls to blockade the podium again but actually voted in favor of the bill. The result was thus seen as a major political victory for the president, who built a consensus on a difficult issue and isolated the hard left. "With this reform the national economy wins; all Mexicans win," Calderon said...
...Caracas Backdoor Reforms On the final day of an 18-month period during which he was granted special decree powers, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez quietly enacted 26 new laws that--among other things--created local militias and expanded government control over areas ranging from private property to commerce and agriculture. The decrees revive aspects of a constitutional-reform proposal rejected by voters last December, spurring opponents to condemn Chávez for surreptitiously advancing his socialist agenda despite the people's wishes...
King Abdullah's seemingly generous offer of a billion dollars from OPEC countries (plus $500 million from his own treasury) to help poor countries cope is also nothing to be grateful for. It amounts to backdoor price discrimination: charging different customers different amounts to extract the maximum from each...
...should try a different experiment in which students actually have responsibility in making major decisions that concern their daily lives. If this community is ever going to be liberal (liberal in the democratic-acceptance-sense rather than the I-Heart-Barack-Obama-sense), silence on multiculturalism and backdoor decisions will get us nowhere. By experimenting with community forums in which students are able to give up their privileges—rather than have administrators take them away—we would be living up to what Harvard hopes to be. We don’t need Habermas to teach...
...backdoor for the Crimson is once again left wide open as #00 for Yale sneaks himself in there for the basket. [Yale 47, Harvard...