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...year 2020”—a bit more than the level mandated by the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on the national level. On Sunday, the Undergraduate Council (UC) will vote on whether this resolution will appear as a referendum on next month’s UC presidential election ballot. Although putting the measure to a student vote is well-intentioned, the referendum does not belong on the ballot this fall...
...spread freedom and democracy in the Middle East. Until recently, ink-stained fingers and a faux-parliament provided enough wool to convince American voters of imminent success in Iraq, but even the bigots on Borat now seem to understand democracy entails more than playing multiple-choice at the ballot...
...profits. On Oct. 20, King Abdullah demonstrated his country’s attitude toward democracy by announcing a new succession system. The royal decree establishes a committee comprising all descendents of the kingdom’s founder, Abdul Aziz bin Saud, which will choose, in a secret ballot, a new leader from the nominees selected by the outgoing monarch...
...fight back, the city's traders have organized strikes and protests, some of which have turned violent. Given their numbers, however, their most useful tool might be the ballot box. Local, state and federal politicians, worried that the clean-up will hurt them at the next election, have filed legal challenges against the Supreme Court's decision, and plan to propose new legislation that would allow some merchants to keep their shops. Smith also wrote that the U.K.'s "government is influenced by shopkeepers." That seems equally true in today's India...
Celebs aren't always helpful. Actor and Parkinson's sufferer Michael J. Fox stumped for pro-stem-cell-research initiatives and candidates--and endured Rush Limbaugh's taunts. To what end? Missouri voters backed a ballot measure for research, but postelection polls showed that Fox's ads hurt his candidate Claire McCaskill more than they helped...