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...poll, he simply moves into the legislature in the job of Prime Minister, and inverts the constitutional relationship between the two positions by installing a supplicant in the presidency. Whatever mechanism he chooses to continue his political role, a majority of voters appear ready to give their President a blank check...
...Still, having secured his political blank check, it remains unclear how President Putin will proceed - although he may provide some hint of an answer sooner than next Spring. On December 17, All Russia is due to hold its party congress, where it is expected to name its presidential candidate for the March 2008 election. But whoever the party puts forward in the presidential race, the likelihood remains that his or her election effort will be run, like the party's parliamentary campaign, "For Putin...
...sense of human touch” to Harvard’s story. “Now’s the time or never to bring John Harvard forward again back from the past,” Van Devere said. “As a dramatist, I look at this blank slate and don’t have to impose anything. I can pull things out that have been obscured by time.” Consisting of several Harvard undergraduates, the cast of “John Harvard” started rehearsing two and a half months prior...
Arab refusal to cooperate with the Israeli authorities has some odd consequences. In a Jerusalem telephone book, for example, maps of Arab neighborhoods are blank, like unexplored parts of the Amazon in the 19th century. That's because no Arab sits on the municipal committee that chooses street names. On the rare occasion when the committee bothers with East Jerusalem, it is to irritate the Arabs by naming a few streets after Israeli war heroes. Mail is seldom delivered there, and having no street names adds to the Arabs' perception that in Israeli society they are either invisible, nonexistent...
...lead at home. That should be a recipe for a win to have the lead at home.”After Donato pulled Richter, the team applied tremendous pressure to Raiders goaltender Mark Dekanich in the last 35 seconds, only to see the backstop repel two last-second, point-blank attempts by Taylor and sophomore Doug Rogers as the Crimson crashed the net.The ending evoked all the more frustration given that the game remained close from the opening faceoff.In the first period, the Crimson outshot the Raiders, 11-9, but Colgate’s hard-hitting defensemen kept...