Word: electivity
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...spring has been slow in coming this year, and April has felt more like November. Not only is the weather chilly, but the campus is beset with a flurry of campaigning. Next week, a historic first: the student body will elect the president and vice president of the Undergraduate Council...
...force of the Democratic Party," says the blunt, sometimes blustery Malcolm, 49. Once a staff member in Jimmy Carter's White House, she founded EMILY--short for "Early Money Is Like Yeast (it makes the dough rise)"--in 1985 because she was disgusted by how few women were getting elected. Her idea was simple: recruit, train and endorse pro-choice Democratic women candidates, then get women around the country to give them money and votes. EMILY holds seminars for candidates, campaign managers and press secretaries --grueling,16-hour-a-day simulations that battle-harden the players--and bundles small contributions...
...regimes that East Asian cultures and de-mocracy do not mix. The element of Lee's platform that most disturbed the mainland was the powerful campaign slogan telling voters, "You're the boss." Says an Asian diplomat in Beijing: "Mainlanders are bound to ask, 'If the Taiwanese could directly elect their leaders, why can't we?'" This fear of democratic contagion comes at a difficult time for the Chinese leadership. While the Taiwanese people elected their President directly, China's political elite is struggling behind the scenes over who will succeed Deng Xiaoping...
...calibration of Peres' reaction reflects his dilemma that whichever way he moves, he has everything to lose. If his answer to the bombings is too soft, his constituents will throw him out of power as punishment and elect an opposition that threatens to freeze if not reverse the peace process. If Peres hits back too hard, he risks unraveling the peace by making an enemy of Arafat and hopelessly antagonizing the Palestinians. Between those alternatives there isn't much room. Said former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Sam Lewis: "Both the peace process and Shimon Peres are on life support...
What is this mysterious process which consumes the precious hours of so many seniors as well as those sophmores and juniors who elect to enter the recruiting process for summer jobs...