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...process jump-started next week in New York City, when he hosts a daylong session dedicated to climate change with heads of state. But Washington - and, ultimately, President Obama - still holds the key. As he told delegates at a California climate summit last November, when he was still President-elect: "Now is the time to confront this challenge once and for all. Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response. The stakes are too high...
...first large Southern city to elect a black mayor in 1973, Atlanta has had African-American leadership ever since. However, this year, a white city council member is leading in polls over three black challengers, causing some to fret that her election could lead to a setback for a "black agenda" of racial and social justice...
...question Democrats have to be asking themselves is, How many times is Nancy Pelosi going to make them walk the plank and cast a vote for a fatally flawed bill?" asks Ken Spain, spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, which helps elect GOP candidates to the House. "This kind of overreach would be a policy disaster for middle-class Americans, but a dream scenario for any Republican opponent...
...postponed. On the other hand, Agha Wali, 32, says he's sure polling stations will be safe and that he plans to vote for Ashraf Ghani, the policy-oriented former Finance Minister. Shafiqa, 21, insists through the cloak of her burqa that she will cast a vote to re-elect Karzai "no matter how bad" the situation is on Thursday. "If I die," she adds, "it will be with pride that I did so for my country's election...
Four years ago, we had the general meeting for the [National Congress] party. I insisted that the party elect a new president, because we expected at the end of the party's four-year cycle that there will be general elections, so we cannot present to the Sudanese people a president who has been in power for twenty years because the Sudanese people would be naturally bored. That was my attempt in the last general conference...