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...flag spat underlines the anxiety surrounding the Czech presidency. Many of Europe's leaders question how Prague can helm the E.U. over the next six months when the Czech president is so unenthusiastic about the group. Klaus has been an outspoken critic of the E.U. for years and says the Czech presidency is an insignificant event. He regularly criticizes major E.U. policies, has refused to sign the Lisbon Treaty and dismisses E.U. climate-change legislation as a "silly luxury" that will exacerbate the international financial crisis. A 67-year-old economist who helped build the Czechs' postcommunist democracy, Klaus likens...
Classics concentrator Roger G. Waite ’10 hopes to improve the Council’s relationship with University Hall by installing a Habsburg prince at the UC’s helm...
...lives in exile overseas. His supporters, reconstituted as the PPP, won elections last year. Even before the PPP was banned, another shell party called Puea Thai had been formed. Somchai, who is Thaksin's brother-in-law, is now exiled from politics. But other Thaksin allies will helm Puea Thai, from which the next Prime Minister will likely be picked in the next week...
...Gretchen A. Brodnicki, the dean for faculty and research integrity, said that the administration is taking the student concerns seriously. She noted that Flier, who took the helm of the school in July 2007, convened a town hall meeting two weeks ago during which he addressed these concerns...
...watchers and voters were asked to produce identification. The votes were held in a ballot box that was continuously monitored. Overnight, the ballots were kept in a lockbox. When the final ballot was tallied, Kelley was declared president, putting the folklore and mythology concentrator in Mather House at the helm of the century-old public service group...