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...other democracies seem to use the popular vote to choose "the United States seems to elect one candidate, but the Electoral College elects another one, this seems undemocratic to me," said Dennis M. Munene '04 of Kenya...
Last call for saving the planet... The final round of negotiations over the Kyoto Protocol on climate change opened in the Netherlands on Monday, and right now Earth's prospects don't look so good - that is if you believe, unlike would-be president-elect George W. Bush, that there is a scientific link between global warming and carbon gas emissions. The current talks are being held to meet a deadline for finalizing the 1997 Kyoto treaty, which requires industrialized nations to dramatically reduce emissions from the use of oil, coal and other fossil fuels. Kyoto emerged out of concern...
...been a dutiful worry in these days since the non-election that the vacuum in the president-elect slot could shake the financial markets. Now that it might be happening - certainly it will look that way to Washington eyes - could the financial markets affect the presidential post-campaign...
...Bush ran for the presidency as a stop-the-madness candidate, and that campaign continues. It's not a bad public relations angle for this post-election muddle: Name a president-elect quickly for the good of the nation, keep the lawyers out of it, and above all don't look any closer at a Florida election apparatus that is not flattered by inspection...
...secretary of state, James Baker, this weekend put the disarmament offer on the table: Wait until Friday (now it looks like Saturday) when the automatic recount, complete with overseas ballots, is certified by Florida officials. And then stop. Loser drops his guns, and we've got a president-elect. No word back...