Word: elections
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...AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY'S NATIONAL PRESIDENT. It's pretty amazing. Some Aboriginal leaders told me the Labor Party would never elect an Aborigine as president. I deliberately proved them wrong because I wanted to show Aboriginal kids what they can achieve...
After the meeting, committees met separately to elect chairs for the semester. Ryan A. Petersen ’08 was elected chair of the Student Affairs Committee...
...Ward Democrats gathered Saturday afternoon in the cafeteria of the Graham and Parks Alternative Public School in Cambridge to elect eight delegates—all of them pro-Patrick—to the party’s June convention...
...recent Palestinian elections presented voters with an extremely difficult choice. By many accounts, the widespread corruption and inefficiency of Fatah had the Palestinian people clamoring for competent government. Fatah’s primary opposition, Hamas, had demonstrated its effectiveness with internal social programs, but this domestic competency was accompanied by a disturbingly extremist attitude toward Israel. Faced with this choice, Palestinian voters opted for Hamas. Although it is doubtful that all voters support Hamas’ terrorism—rather, many were probably looking for an alternative to the stagnation and alleged corruption of Fatah—the so-called...
...president-elect appointed Velasco, who is on sabbatical from the Kennedy School, to the cabinet position on Monday...