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...culture," says Andreas Auer, director of the Centre for Research on Direct Democracy in the town of Aarau. "The federal government has learned to adapt to and live with this system. And while more than half of popular votes are favorable to its views, there remains a margin of uncertainty that is healthy to a truly democratic government." (See TIME's photo-essay "Strays to the Rescue...
...Beijing Olympics, you won silver in the 50 meter freestyle, missing out on gold by one hundredth of a second. How did you feel about losing out on the gold by such a close margin...
...voters rise dramatically from 4% in November, with a recent boost from two good performances in debates among the three candidates. This week, a poll of 423 probable Republican primary voters by Public Policy Polling (PPP) has Hutchison in a virtual tie with Medina when the poll's 4.8% margin of error is considered: 39% for Perry, 28% for Hutchison and 24% for Medina. A relatively new polling organization, PPP made one prescient recent call: it predicted a 51%-to-46% win by Republican Scott Brown in the stunning Massachusetts Senate race; the final...
...determine an athlete's sex. Long a topic of debate in Olympic circles (mandatory gender testing began in the 1960s), sex ambiguity hit the headlines again last year when South African runner Caster Semenya won the women's 800-m world championship in Berlin by an astonishing two-second margin. Fellow competitors raised concerns about Semenya's masculine appearance, prompting track and field's governing body to order sex testing. The results have yet to be released, but the case focused attention on the challenges in balancing competition with an athlete's right to privacy. (See pictures of Caster Semenya...
...didn't deny being angry at James, calling him a "liar and a crook" in court. He said that the retirees met James while on vacation years ago in Florida and that he persuaded them to invest their money in the U.S. housing market, promising the group a profit margin of 18%. Following the subprime-market collapse in the U.S., Roland now claims that James "tricked us and took us for a ride...