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...process. The first--and trendiest--objection is that online voting is an inherently discriminatory practice; Arizona in particular is a sitting duck for such criticism because of its history of Voting Rights Act violations, most of which occurred in the 1970s. The Voting Integrity Project (a non-profit, nonpartisan civic group) has already filed a lawsuit against the state in the hopes of blocking the primary on the grounds that minorities are less likely to have Internet access than their whiter, and ostensibly more affluent, counterparts...
...More troublesome, the Czech president is elected by members of parliament. Milos Zeman, head of the Social Democrats, and Vaclav Klaus, chairman of the opposition Civic Democratic Party, have their own matches to make. They might not cotton to someone who is not just an outsider but a woman as well. "I'm sure she won't have a problem finding a job after she's out of the State Department," says Jonathan Stein of Prague's EastWest Institute. "But I don't think that job's going to be in Prague." Next week Albright will begin to pursue that...
Liberals are big on rights. The 14th Amendment, according to the standard argument, extends to all citizens the equal protection of the laws. This guarantee must be upheld, especially when so basic a civic capacity as defending one's country is at stake. Discrimination on the basis of lifestyle is a clear-cut violation of individual dignity and self-determination, and as such cannot be countenanced. Conservatives take issue with such claims, objecting usually on the basis of unit cohesion. Rights, so the reasoning goes, are meaningful only insofar as a state can stay independent enough to secure them. Fighting...
...left--in Cambridge political terms--stood Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) councillors Kathleen L. Born, Henrietta Davis and Braude, as well as unaffiliated progressives Decker and Kenneth E. Reeves '72, a former two-term mayor...
Robert Winters, a longtime council observer and publisher of the online Cambridge Civic Journal, says most of the complaints he has heard about Galluccio's election as mayor have come from such Cambridge residents...