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...complicity in the murder. Hoping to slowly add more democratic elements to a system that now rejects them, analyst Asylbek Bisenbayev suggests holding transparent elections at the local level, and gradually expanding them to regional and national bodies. Right now, however, the trend is in the opposite direction: district and town heads to be selected next month will be nominated by regional governors and elected by local legislators, rather than nominated by the people and elected through universal suffrage. And this democratic deficit has big repercussions, even according to the President's own daughter. "Launching a more sophisticated and competitive...
Baiano is frying potatoes next to an open sewer in a district of São Paulo known as Campo Limpo (beautiful field). His van is plastered with election posters. Three girls brave the miasma of cooking oil and rotting waste to hand him leaflets for a rival. They've been paid to campaign - voting is compulsory [an error occurred while processing this directive] in Brazil so even slums are targeted when polling day approaches. Baiano has taken no money for his electioneering, and explains "this man isn't the best candidate, but I owe him a favor...
...sign of how badly his act played in New York City last week that even Democratic Representative Charles Rangel, a harsh critic of Bush's, went out of his way to tell Chávez that "you don't come into my country, you don't come into my congressional district and ... condemn my President...
...incident would at least be a “huge distraction for the team and could hurt us.â€And with that, Thomas was gone, closing an embarrassing chapter in the Harvard offseason.Although the Boston Globe reported on Aug. 18 that the victim had told the Middlesex district attorney in an interview that she “wished this whole case was dropped,†charges are still pending. Regardless of the outcome, Thomas will not suit up for the Crimson again.“His official status with the team is that he will not play...
...course will also hear from John E. Jones, the judge who presided over Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, the landmark 2005 case that struck down the teaching of intelligent design in public schools...