Word: majorities
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...wake of the news about the magnitude of the endowment’s decrease, university officials have been promoting an increase in flexible funds raised in order to ensure that major priorities like financial aid can still be met. In other words, rather than encouraging donors to give earmarked gifts for specific purposes, the university has wisely been trying to convince its benefactors to not restrict their donations and to allow their resources to be allocated for whatever purpose deemed most in need of funding...
Sure enough, actual politics is proving the left-right spectrum to be inadequate. Three big off-year elections involved major candidates who were independent (New York City mayor and New Jersey governor) or third-party (the congressional election in New York, where the Conservative Party candidate forced out the Republican, who endorsed the Democrat). That's not to say "liberal" and "conservative" are useless, but they're not nearly enough. (See pictures of 60 years of election night drama...
...identity theme to appeal to the right-wing Le Pen voters who flocked to Sarkozy's 2007 presidential campaign once he began promising to get tough on crime and immigration. Le Pen's daughter Marine, the FN vice president, has voiced a similar accusation. "This country is suffering a major crisis of identity that is driving it into chaos," she told the Europe 1 radio station on Oct. 28. "We've been denied this debate for 25 years. We want a (real) national debate, not an electoral gadget...
...Obama Administration has said it altered its approach because sanctions alone have not worked in bringing about change in the isolated and impoverished nation. For their part, the generals are interested in improving relations because they are overly reliant on China, which has major investments in Burma, as an ally. The junta wants sanctions removed and its upcoming elections to be regarded as legitimate...
...this may not be enough to stop the usual E.U. squabbling in the end. The newly empowered leaders will likely have trouble preventing splits on major issues, if the 2003 dispute over the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq is anything to go by. With this in mind, perhaps a mediator is what the institution needs, not a power-player on the world stage, someone who will "stop traffic" in world capitals, as Miliband said last month in support of a Blair presidency. (See pictures of the Bush-Blair friendship...