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...self-pitying indignation at John Kerry's bringing up her homosexuality during the third debate with George Bush. It was the introduction of anti-gay-marriage initiatives that tipped the election for Bush and her father in key states. Those initiatives didn't end up on the ballot by accident. Instead of pointing a finger at Kerry for what she calls a "cheap and blatant political ploy," she should remember that Republicans are masters at exploiting divisive issues that rile single-issue voters on the right and get them to the polls. Richard Oliver Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S. Catalan Pride...
...people,” said Alexander C. Bok ’81, a close friend she dated. “She’s very persuasive.”Bok remembers helping his roommate run for president of the International Relations Council sophomore year. With several candidates on the ballot, the election stalled. But after Randall worked her way through the Dunster House meeting room, Bok—not even a candidate, but Randall’s choice for the job—won 13 to 5.‘BALLAD OF SALLY ANNE’As she wrote...
...speak three languages. My late father spoke nine. When he became a naturalized American in midcentury, it never occurred to him to demand of his new and beneficent land that whenever its government had business with him--tax forms, court proceedings, ballot boxes--that it should be required to communicate in French, his best language, rather than English, his last and relatively weakest...
Patrick is expected to win the official endorsement of the state central committee this weekend, which requires support of two-thirds of the convention delegates. Candidates who receive the backing of 15 percent of the delegates win a spot on the Democratic primary ballot. In the primary race this September, Patrick is expected to face both Reilly and Christopher F. O. Gabrieli ’81, a former Eliot House resident and the 2002 Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor...
Anyone suddenly tuning in to Peru's presidential runoff this Sunday could easily be confused between the names in the news and those on the ballot. They might even wonder which South American country they are in. Former President Alan Garcìa, the pre-election favorite, is easily identifiable, but he has made his opponent a little harder to pin down. While Garcìa, 57, is pitted against retired Army colonel Ollanta Humala, 43, his comments in the waning days of the race make it seem as if he is running against Venezuela's leftist president Hugo...