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Colombia was roiling today over allegations that President-elect Ernesto Samper won last Sunday's election with the help of drug money. But in a bizarre twist to the tale, TIME Daily reports, the evidence seems to exonerate Samper. Local TV stations buzzed over what appeared to be the biggest political scandal in the South American nation's history, set off by a "smoking gun" audiotape of leaders of the world's largest drug cartel discussing putative campaign contributions to Samper and the loser, Andres Pastrana. But TIME Latin America bureau chief Laura Lopez says a source close...
Many of the council members elect said theywere excited to begin their work and hoped todirectly influence the quality of education andlife at Harvard...
REPRESENTATIVE-ELECT RON LEWIS...
This, among other points, leads Guinier to propose the solution of "cumulative voting." Under this system, a single representative would on longer be tied directly to a particular geographical area. Instead, an expanded constituency would elect a number of representatives, each member of the electorate possessing the same number of votes as there were spaces to fill. such a change would, in Guinier's opinion, allow minority groups to block their votes together in order to elect a genuinely 'representative' candidate. It would also force incumbents into a more direct accountability to their constituents as, since re-election now depends...
...security around President-elect Nelson Mandela last week neatly captured the country's new mood: his African National Congress bodyguards mixed easily with his white, Afrikaans-speaking government agents, exchanging black-power handshakes and chatting amiably. Three days before his inauguration, Mandela talked in Cape Town with Time deputy managing editor John Stacks, Johannesburg bureau chief Scott MacLeod and correspondent Peter Hawthorne...