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...anti-insurgent leaders who want more of their men given security jobs. At the same time, domestic politicking is set to intensify ahead of provincial polls slated for January 31 as rival parties vie for influence and power. The hope is that their disputes will be settled at the ballot box, and not on Baghdad's streets...
Decades before Harvard students canvassed for Obama, Radcliffe women paraded the streets and distributed flyers door-to-door, demanding the right to vote. “Casting the First Ballot,” the fall exhibit at the Harvard College Women’s Center, draws together this struggle for suffrage with contemporary voter issues. Through reproductions of historical photographs and art by current Harvard students, “Casting the First Ballot” explores what it means to be a voter. “We wanted to make historical conversation between past and present,” says...
...real victory for animals came at the polls themselves. In California and Massachusetts, voters passed ballot propositions that could have far-reaching consequences for animal protection in America...
George Takei is famous for portraying Mr. Sulu on Star Trek, but the actor - who has a recurring role on NBC's Heroes - has also earned widespread acclaim for his success as an activist for the gay community. In the wake of the passage of Proposition 8, a ballot measure banning the recently earned right of gays to marry in California, Takei spoke to TIME about the future of marriage equality...
...dispirited will supporters of marriage equality be at the result of this ballot measure...