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Like Gorbachev, Yeltsin hopes to bend the referendum to his own purposes. The second question on the ballot in Russia is whether the republic should establish a directly elected presidency. Voters are likely to say they do want to choose their own leader, and Yeltsin is likely to win an election. He will then be ready to do battle with Gorbachev on a more equal footing. With a huge power base and an electoral mandate, Yeltsin will face a national leader who has never been popularly elected but has massive institutional power at his command...
...added that although “casting a ballot on behalf of somebody else is unconscionable on the Undergraduate Council,” even an official resolution to censure qualified as little more than an admonishment. —Staff writer Christian B. Flow can be reached at cflow@fas.harvard.edu. CORRECTION: A sub-headline in the original online version of the April 23 story “UC Meeting Unravels After Vote on Grant Package” misspelled the last name of Undergraduate Council President Ryan A. Petersen '08. The article also misspelled the name of Samad Khurram...
...students who voted in last week’s referendum, 2,914 cast a ballot in favor of the UC proposal that would also extend winter break to four weeks and have the spring final exam period end more than a week earlier...
...election's problems weren't confined to the validity of the vote - although evidence abounded of blatant rigging. Ballot stuffing was widespread, millions of voters were unable to vote because of a shortage of ballot papers, and on the eve of the vote, an army truck was stopped and found to be carrying thousands of ballot papers completed even before the polls had opened...
...students who voted in the referendum this week, 2,914 cast a ballot in favor of a UC proposal that would also extend winter break to four weeks and have the spring final exam period end more than a week earlier. Meanwhile, 549 students voted against the proposal, Petersen said...