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...There is still going to be more discussion here, and these are only preliminary ideas from one body,” Martinez said, noting that the report will provide the framework for actual legislation to be passed by the entire UC within the next couple weeks...
...Republika Srpska parliament passed a law creating the legal framework for holding a referendum. The thing that remains unclear, however, is what kind of referendum it would be - one that calls for independence outright, or one that asks a more veiled question. Many Bosnian Muslims, known as Bosniaks, say that doesn't matter - they see the mere act of holding a referendum as an intentional provocation. "It's meaningless in its substance," said Kurt Bassuener, of the Democratization Policy Council, a U.S.-based democracy advocacy group. "But the act is very meaningful." The Bosnian war, in fact, was sparked...
...Zdravko Grebo, a professor of law at the University of Sarajevo, says the referendum issue highlights Bosnia's deeper structural problems. "The problem is Bosnia's actual legal and constitutional framework," he says. "Dayton is a peace accord, but it includes our constitution in Annex IV. ... I cannot recall an example in constitutional history where a peace accord has been changed." Grebo says the act of holding a referendum is not in itself unconstitutional and that all citizens have the right to express their views on issues of governance. But, he adds, that doesn't mean a referendum can call...
...first chapter opens: “The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we’re alone, thinking, feeling, lost in memory, dreamingly self-aware, the submicroscopic moments.” This, the abstract framework, is the most important aspect of DeLillo’s novel, more so than a development of characters or the lack thereof, the progression of plot or its absence altogether...
...document also afforded the authors a chance to define their mission as the Tea Party movement mushrooms into a potent force in American politics. With the Mount Vernon statement, conservatism's éminences grises are opening their doors to a group without a founder, an underlying framework or even, seemingly, an organizing principle beyond opposition to the Obama Administration's policies. "If you go out to these gatherings, you find a lot of [people] were never involved at all until they got scared by the direction of the country. Our obligation is not necessarily to lead them but to provide...