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Never a real innovator, Putin this time around employed electioneering tactics that were pretty predictable—just a little more blatant than in elections past. The ever-compliant press was a little more malleable, broadcasting an entire 29-minute speech Putin gave to campaign staffers. Local leaders were a little more enthusiastic about fixing the results, threatening punishment for not getting to the polls and offering prizes to increase voter turnout and get the 50 percent quorum required to make Putin’s victory official. Workers at polling places were a little more likely to forge a couple...
...inspectors provided an opportunity to verify and update the intelligence picture on Iraq. Instead, the Bush administration quickly abandoned the inspection process when it became clear that it was not producing evidence to back the case for war. Washington simply declared Iraq non-compliant and launched military action, even though this made no sense in light of what was emerging from the UN process that the U.S. itself had demanded. That was the principal reason the Bush administration failed to win a UN mandate...
...recall turnout equals the turnout in the original election stacks the deck in favor of incumbents, and it should be scrapped. The general elections bear the imprimatur of the Undergraduate Council, our nominally representative student government. The elections themselves are promoted ad nauseum by the council and a compliant press—not to mention exhortations to vote from hopeful candidates. A recall election could not hope to get this much free publicity. Representatives facing removal need not even defend themselves against the charges leveled against them in order to survive the recall. In fact, it would be to their...
...Silber had abusive power. He made the Board of Trustees too big and too compliant,” a BU faculty member said on condition of anonymity. “It is one of Silber’s legacies that we still have to deal with...
...While the Iraq invasion may have intimidated Syria into being more compliant toward U.S. demands, there's mounting evidence that Iran and North Korea have taken the opposite lesson to the one intended by the Bush Administration. Rather than backing away from weapons of mass destruction, both may instead have accelerated their quest for nuclear weapons so as to avoid going the way of Saddam. North Korea swears it already has them, and Washington faces few good policy options as it goes into six-way talks on the issue later this month. Iran denies it, but there is mounting evidence...