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...many members lose their jobs in November, and whether the party could actually lose control of the House along with them. Republicans are still trying to gauge whether voters will care more about moving the Republican agenda forward or giving the appearance of a clean break with the DeLay-tainted past...
...Harvard’s undergraduate education. But before that can happen, the HCCR needs confident leaders to take the helm and demand that the HCCR—including CGEs—be solidly finished before it is implemented. Better to wait for the Class of 2011 and make a clean break with the Core than attempt a major change in the curriculum without finalizing the centerpiece courses of Harvard’s new general education philosophy...
...solving appeals to voters like Haytham Hammad, 22, a corporal in the Palestinian security forces. "Fatah has not achieved anything for me," he says over coffee in an al-Bireh café. "Hamas is capable of taking back the rights of the Palestinian people--daily rights like a good job, clean water." "Fatah has forgotten even their own mothers," says Abu Tayseer, a cake seller at the next table. "The party is nothing but a crowd of blackmailers." Now the blackmailers are in opposition, and it's up to Hamas to fulfill Palestinians' hopes--big and small...
...Boring (But Clean) The Federal Accountability Act is item No. 1 on the Tories' list of campaign priorities. The long-mooted set of initiatives, which includes stringent controls over lobbying and government appointments and stricter limits on campaign contributions, could be tabled fairly quickly in the new House of Commons, which may begin sitting in mid-March. Given the lingering anger over the sponsorship scandal, says former Reform Party leader Preston Manning, "I can't see anybody in that Parliament voting against that in principle." The bill's final form, though, will have to take into account the recommendations...
...Harper can probably count on a honeymoon while the opposition parties take his government's measure. But the grace period may well be brief. Harper will probably have little trouble winning passage of his clean-government accountability act, the first of five major campaign pledges--the others being a cut in the gst, guarantees on health-care waiting times, tougher measures on crime, and direct cash payments to families for child care. But in the back of his mind, no doubt, is the fact that minority Parliaments in Canada rarely last more than two years...