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...would not run. In late October, however, the soft-spoken leader said she might step forward if her supporters collected 1 million signatures backing her candidacy. Now speculation is rife in Manila that the deeply religious Mrs. Aquino may be on the verge of opposing Marcos on the election ballot...
...candidates, Ahmadinejad won about 19% of the popular vote, nowhere near the more than 50% needed to become President outright. But the favorite, the pragmatic Ayatullah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 70, won only 21%, hence this Friday's runoff vote between the two. The reformers on last week's ballot, supporters of the policies of outgoing President Mohammed Khatami, were badly trounced and now see in Ahmadinejad's smiling face a stealth campaign by Iran's conservative ruling ayatullahs to take the presidency, denying it even to Rafsanjani, who has his fair share of hard-line credentials but has been...
Implementing a 65% rule nationwide, Byrne claims, could inject $14 billion into classrooms without raising taxes. He has channeled $250,000 into his group, First Class Education, which scored a victory this month when Louisiana passed a 65% bill (increasing budget share from 60.3%). Similar measures are on the ballot in Arizona (which spends 58.6%) and before the legislature in Minnesota (current average: 62.1%), where G.O.P. Governor Tim Pawlenty hailed the proposal as "a commonsense idea that will help ensure better accountability in our schools...
...finished by restating his motion: “I hereby move that the Faculty vote, by secret ballot, on the following resolution: ‘The Faculty lacks confidence in the leadership of Lawrence H. Summers...
...hereby move that the Faculty vote, by secret ballot, on the following resolution,” Matory read in a deep, steady, and resolute voice while facing the University president and almost 500 colleagues, “The Faculty lacks confidence in the leadership of Lawrence H. Summers...