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Whatever the outcome of the parliamentary elections, the decisive confrontation between what Latsis calls "the powers that be and the forces of revenge" will really come in June 1996, when Russians are scheduled to vote for a new President. On the mend after his second hospital stay for heart troubles in just over three months, Yeltsin has not ruled out a re-election bid, and will say nothing about his plans until after the new parliament is elected. Nevertheless, every Russian knows that the current campaign is a dress rehearsal for next year's vote. At least five candidates from...
...City. As the Elisa Izquierdo case demonstrates, "if you get a caseworker who goes to somebody's home and says it's fine, then it's fine," notes Parent. "That's how important their voice is." They get no public recognition when that voice is right and they help mend a broken home or rescue a child from harm. But when a child is killed or injured, they are the first to be second-guessed and blamed...
...shuttle bus services, concentration fairs and consensual statements on noncontroversial issues such as cuts in student funding--as indicative of its ability to represent the concrete and substantive issues that concern students, no matter how small they might seem at first. Buttress these strengths by consciously taking measures to mend the atrocious reputation of the council: Start campaigns to increase voter turnout for council elections, continue to increase student involvement in local politics with voter registration drives, educate students on the U.C.'s role and request input into how it might evolve to better meet students' concerns; and for heaven...
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...MEND IT" One of those Republicans did more than just talk. California Governor and presidential aspirant Pete Wilson used his position as head of the University of California board of regents to help steer a measure ending affirmative-action policies at the huge and prestigious nine-campus institution. Demonstrators, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson, protested the decision...