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...local abuses, and that's never happened in China's 25 years of reform," says Robin Munro of the Hong Kong-based China Labour Bulletin, a workers' rights group. Campaigners are working in the one area where China has true democracy. The vast majority of villages are allowed to elect their local chiefs, although many elections remain improperly run or rigged. Activists hope to tilt the balance toward fairness...
...needs people to promote parties who are as excited as possible, and it needs to make more of an effort than e-mails and posters.” This suggestion brought up another issue tackled last year when a UC Reform Commission proposed instituting direct elections to each of the UC branches. This would have changed the current system of elections to the UC, in which the representative with the most votes from each House or Yard chooses a committee on which to serve—either the Financial Committee, the Student Affairs Committee (SAC), or the CLC?...
...cotton balls and eat pale food like marshmallows. And when you have sex in heaven, the offspring must be "little dead people," because you have to be gone to get there. A Salvation Army officer describes death as being "promoted to glory." Reunited with their life's loves, the elect will find pure ecstasy. "If I love you now like I do," says a man devotedly to his young son, "what's it gonna be like then...
...Yale Corporation has 19 members, six of whom are elected by the school’s alumni. At Cornell, most trustees are limited to four-year terms. And every year at Princeton, students and young alumni elect a graduating senior to serve on its 40-member board...
...Iraqi Suicide Bomber" was chilling. I congratulate Time for gaining contact with the interviewee. Your story shed valuable light on why some zealots make the inconceivable choice to carry out horrendous acts of terrorism. Heidi Deifel Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. Hard Right Turn Iran's presidential election, which was won by the hard-line Islamic zealot Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [July 4-11], proved that Iranians are very much like Americans. When they feel threatened, they become more entrenched and belligerent. The victory of an ultraconservative militant in Iran demonstrates the bankruptcy of George W. Bush's foreign policy. It caused...