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...endure a Wednesday evening confidence vote in the Lower House of Parliament, but unless he receives unexpected support in the Senate from the center-right opposition - led by his nemesis, Silvio Berlusconi - it looks like "ciao-ciao" for Prodi. Italian President Giorgio Napolitano could call for immediate elections, or assign a caretaker government to usher in a new electoral law and other much-needed reforms. Most pundits predict that the next national showdown at the polls will feature Berlusconi against Rome's mayor and leader of the newly formed Democratic party, Walter Veltroni. But already Tuesday, Italian dailies were speculating...
...Blaguszewski. “It is very unlikely that, given the pressing needs of the university, we will roll back student fees.” He added that the university will be “open for business as usual” during the protests. Jeff J. Napolitano, president of UMass-Amherst Graduate Student Senate, said that these problems existed prior to his arrival on campus as an undergraduate several years ago. This reflects the “administration’s refusal to really deal with these problems,” Napolitano said, adding that calling the effort...
...passage. Any number of amendments could serve as deal killers; Democratic supporters such as Sen. Menendez demand an emphasis on family reunification (the current bill prioritizes a merit-based point system based on skills above family ties); and there's still the House to worry about. Rep. Grace Napolitano, a California Democrat and member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, maintained that "we're ready on the House side to proceed on a good, fair, and just immigration reform...
...ready, but the time for immigration reform is running out. "This will not get done in an election year," said Napolitano. "It'll just be a political football...
...more surprising alliance than Napolitano's mind-meld with businesspeople has developed between liberals, especially environmental activists, and the conservative hunting-and-fishing community--the "hook and bullet" crowd--over the exploitation of natural resources. "Not every place on God's green earth needs to be open to natural-gas exploration," says George Orbanek, the conservative publisher of Colorado's Grand Junction Daily Sentinel. "You don't need to put up natural-gas rigs in the Grand Junction watershed, for example. The problem is, we've gone from the extreme Democrat tree huggers in the 1990s to a hard-right...