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...DIED. KING SALAHUDDIN ABDUL AZIZ SHAH, 75, constitutional monarch of Malaysia; in Kuala Lumpur. Salahuddin, an avid golfer and cyclist, took the ceremonial throne in 1999 under a five-year rotation system when he was elected by secret ballot among the sultans of Malaysia's nine states. Salahuddin married four times, lastly exchanging controversial vows with a 19-year-old. DIED. MOHAMED IBRAHIM KAMEL, 74, the former Egyptian Foreign Minister who resigned at Camp David in the wake of the historical peace accords between Israel and Egypt in 1978; in Cairo. Kamel was the second Egyptian Foreign Minister to resign...
Nonetheless, constitutional change would be virtually impossible to get through the factionalized parliament. The reformers want early parliamentary elections. But parliamentary elections are dangerous in unstable Georgia, where intimidation and ballot stuffing are common. The reformers must tread a difficult path between appealing to popular frustration and polarizing the debate...
...Brown, however, Jahanbani said that students were planning to take advantage of the ruling. NLRB regulations require that eligible graduate students at Brown be able to vote in a secret ballot election on whether to unionize within 30 days...
...ugliest political brawl since the Jefferson-Adams presidential campaign--MELISSA GILBERT vs. VALERIE HARPER for the presidency of the Screen Actors Guild--is being contested owing to a ballot-instruction technicality. Gilbert's surprise victory culminates a campaign in which Harper, who ran on the Actors Moving Forward slate, refused to debate Gilbert, of the Restore Respect party. Harper sent out a mailing disclosing that Gilbert was a scab in a 1989 movie; Gilbert was forced to send out an e-mail explaining why she was too busy to appear at SAG strike events last year (birthday parties, dying...
Dartboard was very disappointed to hear this. An ardent Gore supporter throughout the election, Dartboard would have been the first to attack the Supreme Court, the Florida ballot, and then-candidate Bush. But upon reading further, Dartboard discovered that all parties, including Gore, were at fault for dismissing justice in the interest of politics...