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First and foremost, the council must ensure that the commission is honest in all its actions. With mere hours left to vote in the presidential elections, the commission sent e-mails to candidates stating that results would be delayed, because the election was “exceedingly close.” These e-mails may have sparked a flurry of last minute voting, but results indicated that Rohit Chopra ’04 had swamped opponents by a margin unprecedented in previous years’ elections. Clearly, then, the commission’s email was dishonest...
...called the rising volume of objections from abroad, even as he was jockeying his troops into ready position, the "rerun of a bad movie." Surely, he snapped, "our friends have learned lessons from the past." Yet for a growing chorus of other folks, not least of all America's foremost allies, those lessons are no easy guide to the future. Accusing the U.S. of needless "impatience," French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin seemed to speak for much of the international community last week when he declared, "We see no justification right now for any military action...
...positive change reluctantly coming. It may not be as dramatic as taking down the Berlin Wall, but I'd rather have steady, methodical change - gradual democratization. Democratic forces exist, but every time they've had a chance to express themselves fully, they were silenced because of external issues." Foremost among these, says Ibrahim, is the Palestinian question. "At one point the slogan was: 'No voice should be louder than the battle for Palestine.' That permeated the language of discourse of all dictators in the Arab world - Palestine first and then we'll get down to business. These issues were often...
...foremost constitutional scholar and a leading Supreme Court advocate, Tribe...
...Italian-Austrian who ranched cattle in Kenya's Rift Valley. She is the daughter of a South African sugar-cane farmer. While John and Erica Platter were not actually born into South Africa's 300-year-old viticulture industry, they have nonetheless become the foremost ambassadors of the country's wine. The Platters' annual South African wine guide was first published in 1979. The 2003 edition is 520 pages thick, and required reading among the sundowner-sipping svelte of the veldt. Now, after what they describe as "a year, or two, of drinking dangerously" the couple have completed a safari...