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...fuel rods from the former Soviet Union for 5600,000. The seizure, one of the largest in the world this year, rekindled fears of a terrorist market for this kind of material. All Polled Out SERBIA-MONTENEGRO Serbia's ruling coalition dissolved itself after its candidate in the presidential ballot was out-polled by an ultranationalist. The 18-party Democratic Opposition of Serbia, which came to power in 2000 after ousting strongman Slobodan Milosevic, has been riven by infighting and two weeks ago called early elections after losing its parliamentary majority. The presidential ballot was ruled invalid...
...show but toned down the piety. The heroes are more self-doubting and fallible, and their adversaries more human. Last year President Bartlet (Martin Sheen) ran for re-election against a Republican so dim and loutish no one could have voted for him unless tricked by a butterfly ballot. This year--resolving a cliffhanger set up by Sorkin--Wing gave us John Goodman as a G.O.P. House Speaker (stepping in for Bartlet after his daughter was kidnapped), who was inspiring, even noble, and the new Vice President (Gary Cole) is a wily, underestimated foil to Bartlet...
Turnout was up this year—20,080 ballots were cast compared with 17,688 two years ago—a trend widely attributed to both DeBergalis’ voting registration drive on campuses and to the fact that voters came out to weigh in on a controversial ballot question on rent control...
...recent years, development issues have dominated local politics, and the ongoing presence of neighborhood leaders on the ballot is unsurprising...
Years ago, he recalls, the viewers would stare down each ballot box as it arrived, their necks craning over a metal railing separating the counting staff from its audience...