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...analysis of the party's options for requesting a recount. But most of all, he wanted to know why one of Taiwan's poorest counties, which had never failed to vote KMT, had turned against the party. The defectors of Yunlin helped Chen to his paper-thin victory margin and "stripped me of everything, even my underwear," said Lien, according to KMT legislator Hsu Shu-po, who was present...
Harvard students often justifiably complain that our lives are overly stressful. The shift of Fall semester exams from January to December—a move that was favored by our peers by a two to one margin in a free-response online Undergraduate Council survey of more than 100 students carried out earlier this year—would provide a welcome stress-free block in the middle of the year. Especially as our school has become increasingly national and international, the importance of making the sometimes-long journey home with no accompanying work or conflicting commitments has increased...
Political Landslide ALGERIA President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was re-elected by a huge margin, gaining 83% of the vote. Bouteflika campaigned on his record of taming the country's 12-year-long Islamic insurgency. His main rival, former Prime Minister Ali Benflis, came second with just 8%. Benflis said the poll was a sham marred by fraud...
...others call that plan as unrealistically rosy as the original Eurotunnel projections. French and British officials scoff at ideas of state aid, and Maillot is hardly in a position to dictate to banks who have bailed Eurotunnel out at least three times before. The new board's margin of maneuver is perhaps even tighter than the old one's. "At best, creditors swap debt for capital, greatly diluting small holdings," Rémon says. "At worst, they refuse, wait until Eurotunnel is in default, and take full ownership." The fate of the tunnel below the Channel is secure; it will...
...March 30, the House of Representatives approved the ROTC and Military Recruiter Equal Access to Campus Act of 2004 by a 4-1 margin. If passed into law by the Senate, as some politicos have predicted it will be before the November election, the bill stands poised to require schools to let ROTC through their doors. As the bill’s primary sponsor, Rep. Christopher Cox, R-CA, a former Faculty member of the Harvard Business School, has noted, it “might just as well be called the Harvard Act” since most other schools have...