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Later that day, exuberant supporters of both UC insider tickets attracted attention by chanting campaign slogans while waving their banners outside the Science Center, the annual marker of the UC Presidential Elections...
Their rivals, John F. Bowman ’11 and his vice presidential candidate Eric N. Hysen ’11, kicked off their campaign with a launch party after midnight...
...Obama on education policy due to their agreement on charter schools and merit pay. After his election, Christie told a crowd in Woodbridge, N.J., that “It’s [his election] not a repudiation of the president. In fact, I said the exact opposite during the campaign,” and McDonnell did the same, saying that he “ran on Virginia issues, kitchen table issues. That’s largely what got people to support our campaign...
...Tokyo, trying to hold fast to its campaign promises to resolve the base issue in step with the needs of Okinawans, has felt diplomatic pressure from the U.S. State Department over the past few weeks to make a firm decision to enable the terms of the 2006 agreement on Futenma. In late October, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates pushed Hatoyama to uphold Japan's end of the 2006 agreement. "Secretary Gates played the bad cop so that President Obama won't have to," says Michael Green, senior adviser and Japan chair of the Center for Strategic and International Studies...
...Insideline's Toshikawa says that by waiting on the mayoral election in Nago and then the Okinawa prefectural election next November, Hatoyama - by upholding his campaign promise to respect Okinawa's say in the matter - would make it difficult to stay on point with the 2006 agreement. "On major issues of diplomacy and defense, the government should consider local elections - but it can become an obstacle." Toshikawa also says that Hatoyama's handling of this issue, by fielding the different plans of his ministers, is characteristic of his desire to "unify his Cabinet." The problem, says Toshikawa, is that Hatoyama...