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...March 19 legislative vote may face many of the same organizational and logistical problems that plagued the presidential poll, and there has been little inclination in Haiti's political class to delve too deeply into just how the country's most expensive elections ever could have been conducted with such lax oversight. Preval has intimated that he has proof of the fraud, which can be traced to polling station workers. Those 36,000 positions were prized by members of the various political parties, and Preval may not want to open the lid on that pot, particularly now that the vast...
...should not be used to excuse UC members from acting as leaders. That means that individual UC members should stand at the forefront of debates leading up to polls, articulating their views and informing students. Otherwise, polls risk simply aggregating the ignorance of students on most UC issues. We elect UC representatives to be both experts and representatives. While we do not want a UC out of tune with students, we would be more concerned by a student government run entirely by referenda...
...March 19 legislative vote may face many of the same organizational and logistical problems that plagued the presidential poll, and there has been little inclination in Haiti's political class to delve too deeply into just how the country's most expensive elections ever could have been conducted with such lax oversight. Preval has intimated that he has proof of the fraud, which can be traced to polling station workers. Those 36,000 positions were prized by members of the various political parties, and Preval may not want to open the lid on that pot, particularly now that the vast...
...with the unprecedented conviction of 15 members of the military and former paramilitaries for a 1994 massacre of more than 20 people. And his response to the crowds this week has been significantly more statesmanlike than that of his predecessor Jean Bertrand Aristide. In 1990, shortly after Aristide was elected but before he took office his supporters had blocked an attempted coup d'etat, but then went on a rampage, burning buildings and attacking anti-Aristide leaders. Aristide's response was not to tell his supporters to go home; instead he said he was just the president-elect...
...worth a try," and he noted that he has always said acceptance of difficult thoughts can have a role early in therapy. But in the weeks after the convention, the debate between Beck's followers and Hayes' turned acrimonious. Having just returned from the conference, Robert Leahy, president-elect of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy (current president: Judith Beck), posted a message on the academy's listserv saying Hayes' language theory "sounds less like a 'science' than a frame of reference for a new religion ... Haven't we all been down that dark pathway before?" Another cognitive therapist, Bradford Richards...