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...Local activists were so angry about that one that they put an initiative on the ballot in Souter's hometown to seize his home and replace it with an inn to be called the Lost Liberty Hotel. It was voted down, so the old farmhouse will still be there waiting for him when Souter leaves Washington - still a loner, still a mystery in some ways, but a man we know much more about now than we did when he first arrived...
...class citizens.” In a speech at the event, he appealed to students to join his campaign, offering positions of leadership and the opportunity to learn how campaigns function. The campaign has only collected 700 of the 3,000 signatures needed to put Yoon on the September ballot, where he would compete with four-time incumbent Mayor Thomas M. Menino and fellow councilor Michael Flaherty. Yoon said the remaining signatures would be collected by the end of next week. Currently serving his second term as a Boston city councilor at-large, Yoon is the first Asian American ever...
...that alone doesn't justify a change in policy. Critics point out that dealing with Hamas would break precedent, since the U.S. never publicly dealt with Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization until it accepted Israel and renounced violence. They say Hamas must be forced to choose between the ballot and the bullet. They're right - it must. But what matters is getting it to choose, not whether Hamas chooses before we talk to it or after. The Irish Republican Army only publicly renounced armed struggle in 2005, a full seven years after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which brought...
...Lario's latest public swipe took aim at her husband's plans to put politically inexperienced, easy-on-the-eyes young women on the ballot for the European Parliament elections in June. "Somebody has written that this is all for the entertainment of the emperor," she told the ANSA news service. "I agree. [It] is shameless trash, all in the name of power." Lario said that she and the three grown children she has with Berlusconi "are victims and not accomplices in this situation. We must bear it, and it causes us to suffer...
That would be bad news for Mexico, and bad news for the U.S. The PRI came to power in 1929 by reestablishing order after the bloody chaos of the Mexican Revolution. It set up an elective dictatorship, one of the world's most corrupt, infamous for ballot-box fraud and notorious for blaming all its epic failings on Washington. The party was also as soulless as its massive, East German-style headquarters in Mexico City. It stood for little more than the cynical acquisition of power and its spoils - the manifestation of Octavio Paz's premise that Mexico...