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Harvard undergraduates were given a taste of local politics last night at a dinner joining journalists, students, and newly elected mayors at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. As part of a biannual leadership conference for newly elected mayors, hosted by Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP) and the US Conference of Mayors, Harvard students and their hometown politicians were given a chance to discuss local affairs before engaging with a panel of journalists speaking on the 2008 presidential election. “Even though the [new mayors’ conference] is designed for mayors, it is also...
...long-simmering crisis peaked Friday when parliamentarians failed to elect a new head of state to replace Lahoud due to a lack of the required quorum. Despite weeks of back-room negotiations and intense international mediation, the feuding politicians have been unable to find a suitable successor acceptable to both sides. Parliament is scheduled to convene again on November 30 for another attempt at electing a president...
...March 14 block has refrained from fulfilling a threat to elect a president drawn from its own ranks if no consensus candidate was found. The opposition has warned that it would not recognize a March 14 president and would consider such a move a "coup." Paul Salem, director of the Carnegie Endowment's Middle East Center, said that if March 14 tried to elect a president, Hizballah would try to stop them physically from meeting. "That means road blocks and men with guns and that means other men with guns and that's very dangerous," he said...
Malcom A. Glenn ’09 will lead the newly elected 135th Guard of The Harvard Crimson, the paper’s outgoing president announced Friday. Glenn, a history concentrator from Denver, Colo. and Leverett House, has served as an associate on the Sports board since February. He will assume the president’s post at the start of the spring semester. He will be the first black president of The Crimson in more than a half-century. The paper’s outgoing editors elected their successors early Friday morning, and the president of the 134th Guard...
...Lebanon's powerful Shi'ite political party Hizballah, which possesses its own military, is using its influence to press for a new President friendly to its agenda and the interests of its Syrian and Iranian backers. Meanwhile, pro-Western, anti-Syrian politicians threaten to elect a President from their own camp if the opposition rejects a consensus candidate. Hizballah and its allies say they will not recognize an anti-Syrian President and hint they will form a rival government instead...