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...Michael V. Brewer ’07 will take on the leadership role of CSA president for the upcoming year. All Harvard undergrads who attended student mass on Sunday, Dec. 11 were eligible to vote in the elections. Between 200 and 300 students cast votes on the 14-person ballot, estimated outgoing CSA President Anna Lonyai ’06. In an e-mail, Brewer wrote that his major goal as incoming CSA president is to “strengthen the Harvard Catholic community and make the CSA a more inviting and welcoming institution to outsiders.” Brewer...
...slung primary school, there were more reporters than voters. Journalists captured images of the orderly lines and jostled to photograph the royalist candidate, Sherif Ali, as he arrived with a large armed escort to cast his vote. Security was tight, and every voter was patted down before approaching the ballot boxes. But voters seemed happy about the precautions. "All my neighbors are going to vote," said Salim, a 22-year-old student in line at the school. He said he had felt safe walking to the polls because "the police and army are everywhere." That much was confirmed...
...checkpoints to protect voters from attacks by Al Qaeda. In Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, locals described long lines and no major attacks. The polling centers in Fallujah were overwhelmed by the participation, locals told TIME, and unhappy residents complained that some election centers didn't have enough ballot boxes...
After years of government repression, activists like el-Erian have a lot to cheer about. The final round of balloting gave the Brotherhood, whose candidates ran as independents, 88 seats in the 454-member parliament, making it the main opposition to President Hosni Mubarak's secular, military-backed regime, which has ruled Egypt for 24 years. The result, a sixfold increase over the group's 15 seats in the current national assembly, came despite clashes between Brotherhood supporters and government police who tried to prevent them from voting. The violence left 12 dead and hundreds injured. And the election raised...
...decree that those dates were no longer acceptable. Now, Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang, the man in the middle, is trying to bring the two sides together with a limited reform package scheduled for a vote in the Legislative Council on Dec. 21. For the 2007 ballot for a Chief Executive, Tsang, the current frontrunner, proposes doubling the electoral college from 800 to 1,600; for the 2008 legislative ballot, he wants to expand the number of directly elected seats from 30 to 35?still just half of the total number. For a city of 6.9 million well-educated...