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...Democratic and Republican parties are about to lose control of the way their presidential candidates are chosen. Both had picked a select group of states that could elect nominees before Feb. 5, 2008. But Florida, which wasn't one of them, is now set to break the party-approved barrier and move its primary up to Jan. 29. South Carolina, which the parties picked to have the first Southern primary, says it will move its G.O.P. primary even earlier to keep that distinction. New Hampshire, scheduled for Jan. 22, requires its secretary of state to move its primary to stay...
...court found that the AKP did not have a quorum in parliament when it attempted to elect Gul to the presidency last week. The judges did not comment on the fact that the secularist opposition party that lodged the petition had, in fact, engineered that shortfall by boycotting the first round. Nor did judges take note that on at least one previous occasion, in the 1980s, a President was elected without the same quorum the court deemed necessary in this instance. (At that time, no one challenged the result.) Still, the judgment has been accepted, and the AKP has called...
Women occupy the offices of the presidency at countless universities around the country—half of the Ivy League universities have a women presidents, if you include Ppresident-elect Drew G. Faust—but upon Faust’s appointment, the announcement of Harvard’s first female president was somehow of a greater magnitude than those that had been made so many times before, so many years earlier, in so many other university press rooms...
University President-elect Drew G. Faust may have said upon her confirmation that she was “the president of Harvard, not the woman president of Harvard.” But for one night, at least...
...properly play a role in the waning weeks of an interim Presidency is not immediately clear to me,” Bok wrote. “But I will certainly seek counsel about the question and think hard about it myself.” For her part, University President-elect Drew G. Faust told The Crimson in February that serious discussion of calendar reform will have to wait for the completion of General Education reforms. University Spokesman John D. Longbrake had no response from the Corporation when contacted about Petersen’s letter late last night...