Word: elections
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...College to distort our view of how societies run best. Nor is it a system designed to paternalistically decide what is fair and unfair consumption based upon income brackets. Rather, dorm life is a system designed to facilitate our studies here. The vast majority of students elect to live in the Houses—and the College provides these accommodations—because they make our lives as students easier to manage; even financial aid recipients have the option of renting off-campus rooms rather than using their aid to pay for room and board at the College...
...should not be forgotten that Iraq recently held elections, Egypt for the first time will have competitive elections for president, and even Saudi Arabia will elect regional governments. While the events are not necessarily directly linked together, they do suggest an encouraging, and accelerating, trend towards freedom in the region...
ABBAS: There are differences in our ways of thinking. I want to put everything on the table, and you can take it or leave it. Even when I was running for the elections, many friends advised me not to. But I said, "No, I have to tell the people everything. Either they'll elect...
...past two months alone, we've seen Iraqis voting for a National Assembly, Palestinians voting in presidential and municipal polls (and they'll elect a new legislature in the summer), Saudis (well, male Saudis, anyway) voting in unprecedented elections to relatively toothless municipal councils, Lebanese protestors forcing the resignation of a pro-Syrian government, and last weekend?s proposal by Egypt?s President Hosni Mubarak to open up the traditional single-candidate elections that have endorsed his 24-year reign to other candidates (albeit only those approved by a legislature heavily stacked in the ruling party?s favor). Clearly...
...depots around Baghdad [Feb. 7], TIME referred to "nationalist fighters" who use the arms for their deadly operations. You should reserve the term nationalist for the millions of brave and determined Iraqis who risked their lives to demonstrate their commitment to a new, democratic Iraq by voting in the election. The choice of bullets over ballots is being made not by nationalists but by foreign and homegrown jihadists, Baathists and insurgent Sunnis with a vested interest in holding on to a disproportionate share of the power and resources of the nation they once tyrannized. They are terrorizing the population they...