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...Institute of Politics (IOP) released the results of its 13th Biannual Youth Survey on Politics and Public Service yesterday, revealing that presidential hopefuls Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani are the preferred candidates among the 18-24 age group. The online survey, which sought the opinions of 2,526 U.S. citizens, also reported that 36 percent of likely Republican voters and 18 percent of likely Democratic voters said they were “dissatisfied” with the choice of candidates for their party’s nomination. Thirty-seven percent...
...resolutions go, this one seems deceptively modest. "My ambition is to exterminate the word 'bumbling' from the vocabulary of profilers," says Boris Johnson, the Tory candidate to become mayor of London. "There's going to be a massive stamping down on the bumbling. Much less bumbling." A quick search on Google reveals the scale of the problem: a combination of the words Boris Johnson and bumbling produces more than 27,600 results. Sample sentence: "Everyone keeps telling me Boris Johnson's bumbling idiot routine is just that - a routine. I'm not so sure...
...bigger hurdle for Johnson is to prove that he can do deep as well as droll. In a revealing jest about his party's candidate for mayor, Tory leader David Cameron recently remarked: "Inside Boris there is a serious, ambitious politician fighting to get out." The London election next May will pit Johnson against another colorful maverick, the incumbent Ken Livingstone, a wily and resilient left-winger who has introduced tolls for cars entering central London and is now promising to boost the capital's stock of affordable housing. Johnson has not yet revealed his own manifesto, but speaks...
...Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office said it found no evidence that Lee, a former Seoul mayor and the presidential front-runner for the conservative Grand National Party (GNP), participated in alleged fraudulent financial practices including stock-price manipulation in partnership with Korean-American executive Kim Kyung Joon...
...medieval dukes. Since late last month, it also has a new law that makes proficiency in Dutch, the official language of Belgium's Flemish region, a precondition for buying public land. That puts a hard new edge on the increasing alienation between the country's linguistic communities, but Mayor Tim Vandenput is unrepentant. "I have nothing against other nationalities," he says. "But this is a Flemish region and we want it to remain Flemish...