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...Elections for Taiwan's 225-member legislature used to pivot on localized concerns, like whether a county had enough roads. But this Saturday's ballot is proving to be a referendum on the big issues: Taiwan's relationship with China, and Chen's presidency. His narrow re-election in March-just one day after an apparent assassination attempt-left him without a clear mandate and spawned weeks of street protests by the KMT-led opposition. That stretched into acrimonious months of ballot recounts and lawsuits challenging both the vote tally and the circumstances of the shooting incident. Though the courts...
...Undergraduate Council is poised to vote this Sunday on an important ballot initiative that may help to significantly reduce the amount of greenhouse gases Harvard produces. If the proposal is passed, the council will place a referendum on next week’s presidential ballot which would ask students two questions: first, whether they support placing a $10 renewable energy fee on termbills and second, whether the charge should be “opt-in,” “opt-out,” or mandatory. We emphatically urge the council to pass the legislation, and we hope...
...Massachusetts State Legislature granted preliminary approval in March to a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage but allowing for civil unions. The amendment must be passed again by next year’s Legislature before being put to a statewide ballot referendum...
...legislation, which comes to a full Undergraduate Council vote on Sunday, would put an item on next week’s Presidential ballot asking students if they support a $10 renewable energy fee on their termbill—and second, whether the charge should be “opt-in,” “opt-out,” or mandatory...
Same-sex marriage wasn’t the only gay rights cause up for debate in this election. Sure, voters in eleven states were presented with ballot initiatives that would amend state constitutions to define marriage as between one man and one woman, and all eleven adopted the amendments by large percentages. But the literature promoting the initiatives makes it clear that marriage is not really the issue at stake. The debate focused on whether homosexuality was acceptable, in wedlock or out of it. That paints the new amendments as an even more major defeat, and calls...