Word: democratization
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...polls, Minnesota has yet to seat its junior U.S. Senator. On June 1, the state's supreme court heard arguments on the intricacies of absentee-ballot rules, which the incumbent candidate, Republican Norm Coleman, contends were inconsistently applied and would therefore invalidate a lower-court ruling that Democrat Al Franken won the race by a margin of just 312 votes. The court is expected to rule on the issue within weeks. Franken's admission to the Senate would give Democrats a 60-vote majority, which would enable them to override Republican filibusters...
...card-carrying Democrat who voted for Barack Obama and would do it again. But you have got to stop treating the First Family as if they were Brad and Angelina and children. Michelle Obama is a beautiful, poised and educated woman, not a Hollywood-celebrity wannabe. Jeanni Green, DAYTON, OHIO...
...would abandon its plans for missile defense in Poland and the Czech Republic - which the U.S. has always justified by referring to an Iranian threat - if Russia would help bring Iran into compliance with its international nuclear obligations. Back home, Ross has persuaded Howard Berman, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Relations Committee, to flip positions and introduce a bill that would impose a ban on the sale of refined petroleum to Iran...
...Baghdad sounded the alarm that the invasion was about to go very badly. When the White House and the Pentagon's civilian management read the Baghdad chief's conclusions, they raged, dismissing the analysis as "defeatist," even going so far as to accuse the chief of being a closet Democrat. The chief came home, but that did not stop his successors, CIA officers from the ranks, from sending in similar bad news every 60 days...
...this puts a cloud over Ticketmaster's merger plans. "I think [the merger] would be a catastrophe for the entertainment business," said Representative Bill Pascrell, a New Jersey Democrat who demanded congressional hearings into the matter. "Given Ticketmaster's recent mishandling of Bruce Springsteen's tour and other shows, it is clear that this company's questionable business practices warrant sharper scrutiny." Earlier this week, the Congressman introduced a bill, named the Boss Act, that calls for ticketing companies to disclose how many tickets are being withheld in primary public ticket sales and a 48-hour waiting period before tickets...