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...early on, meaning the proportional rule - and the full implications that come with a long, closely fought, three- or two-person race - have never been taken out for a drive. "We haven't seen anything like this," says Tad Devine, who hammered out 13-B in 1988 with his counterpart from the Jackson campaign (party rules maven Harold Ickes, who now works for Clinton). "We have always theorized about it, but it will be tested for the first time. Both candidates can keep collecting delegates for some time...
Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, proposed the Alliance of Civilizations in 2005 as an alternative to the "clash of civilizations" mind-set, which was first described by political scientist Samuel Huntington and has characterized much post-9/11 thinking about the relationships between Islam and the West. The United Nations agreed to sponsor the program, which it considered, as Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in his remarks to the Forum on Tuesday, "an important way to counter extremism and heal the divisions that threaten our world...
...that they are now in no rush to complete negotiations. "It is not a race against time. The essential thing is to get what we want from the negotiation, for the Polish as well as the Czech sides," explained Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk, speaking alongside his Czech counterpart, Mirek Topolanek, on the eve of Klich's trip to Washington. Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski has said he does not expect talks to conclude until after November's U.S. elections...
...already required by law from municipal police departments.The Connecticut ruling is especially relevant at Harvard, where the issue of free access to campus police records has been disputed for years. The Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) is, in terms of delegated state authority, almost identical to its Yale counterpart: Though operated by Harvard University, a private entity, HUPD officers are deputized by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with “special state police powers.” HUPD officers can and do carry firearms, make arrests, execute warrants, and otherwise avail themselves of any standard police power at the disposal...
...gross domestic product this year, $500 more than in the U.S. For the first time since the 19th century, the average Brit will earn more than his or her U.S. counterpart...