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...students who voted in last week’s referendum, 2,914 cast a ballot in favor of the UC proposal that would also extend winter break to four weeks and have the spring final exam period end more than a week earlier...
...gives them an advantage in the next election. This is an historic choice, with ramifications for Americans not even born yet. Let's put aside for a moment the small politics of the day. The judgment of history should be the approval we seek, not the temporary favor of the latest public opinion poll." Sen. John McCain (R-Az.), speaking at the Virginia Military Institute, April...
...Tough words - especially because, here in America, much of the mainstream media was also cheering. McCain, a onetime media favorite when he last ran for President, was effectively forswearing the possibility of regaining their favor...
...proceeded to excoriate the plump party leaders and condemn "our tables groaning with sturgeon and caviar" bought at special stores closed to ordinary citizens. He ended by asking to be relieved of his duties, a favor the Party eventually granted by firing him from the Politburo early in 1988. To Yeltsin, it seemed to be the end of his career. "Perhaps the hardest period of my whole life was after my expulsion from the Politburo," he later wrote. "Gorbachev didn't send me into Siberian exile or to some far-flung foreign country; he put me in charge of construction...
...that won't be easy. Many influential figures from Bayrou's Union for French Democracy (UDF) party had already joined the Sarkozy campaign before the first round; the majority of UDF members are thought to favor Sarkozy's liberal economic program more than they resent his gestures to the extreme right. That leaves independent centrists and Socialists whose disdain for Royal sent them flocking to Bayrou in the first place - a demographic essential to lure back, with early polls showing Sarkozy beating Royal in the run-off 54% to 46%. "This is an entirely new campaign," Lepetit says...