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Yesterday’s rally in favor of single-sex marriage drew approximately 1,000 people, according to organizers. Included in that figure were at least 50 Harvard students, according to attendee and Undergraduate Council President-elect Matthew W. Mahan...
Including absentee ballots, the final vote was 60 residents in favor of the deal, four opposed and four abstaining, according to William Bloomstein, one of the four representatives from the Agassiz Committee on the Impacts of Development (ACID) that negotiated the deal with Harvard...
...like to eat. With a near monopoly on snack-craving Quadlings, Celeris should primarily focus on stocking the most highly demanded products. With students at the helm, expensive and undesirable refreshments—including stale, neglected gourmet gummy bears—will likely be cleared from the shelves in favor of more popular and profitable snacks...
...Grand Ayatullah Ali Hussein al-Sistani, the most powerful Shi'ite in Iraq. Al-Sistani had been insisting on direct election of a new government next spring because he feared that the U.S. proposal--for an indirect process featuring local caucuses throughout the country--might easily be manipulated to favor the nonelected members of Iraq's Governing Council, particularly the Pentagon's perennial favorite former exile, Ahmed Chalabi. According to the Financial Times, al-Sistani is now willing to let the U.N. decide whether direct elections or the American plan would be easier to carry out next spring...
...there was also the possibility that the Bush Administration was racked by its never ending ideological battle over unilateral action. The State Department was firmly in favor of an international deal. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld was said to be ready to shed the burdens of local governance in Iraq. The Coalition Provisional Authority was divided--but L. Paul Bremer told Senator Hillary Clinton that he favored U.N. involvement in the selection of a new government. The Vice President remains skeptical about any U.N. role. The President, however, may be turning away from the hard-liners and toward a more pragmatic approach...