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Last year's council was plagued by a reputation of being elitist and ineffectual. Several factors contributed to the image, including a highly publicized, make-or-break concert that flopped, internal strife that culminated in a failed effort to oust the group's treasurer, and a cumbersome grants process rumored to favor those with friends on the finance committee...
...September and awaits President Bush's signature: the Cuban Democracy Act will prohibit subsidiaries of U.S. companies from trading with the island and bar any ship that docks in Cuba from unloading at U.S. ports. Prominent dissidents in Cuba argued that the measure would only worsen living conditions, not oust Castro. While the White House supports the embargo, it opposed tightening it for fear of alienating U.S. trade allies but quickly changed its mind after Clinton backed the measure. "There's no question Mas has a lot of power in Washington," said one diplomat. "No one would...
ONLY TWO REPUBLICS -- SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO -- remain in what Belgrade continues to call Yugoslavia, and the U.N. General Assembly is having none of it. The Assembly voted 127 to 6 to oust the truncated federation. In order to reclaim U.N. membership, it will have to reapply as a new nation and gain approval from the Security Council. And to do that, so-called Yugoslavia will have to prove it has stopped supporting Serbian militias in Bosnia and is working to restore peace...
Those without enough votes to oust a representative--and remember D.C. has no voting member in Congress--have little control over their future. The residents of our capital have to rely on the generosity of voters in other states who probably don't even realize that they are deciding the fate of Washington, D.C. when they choose their representatives...
...progressive "good government" Democrats--managed to oust the Independents for the first time since...