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...pick a competent panel to decide who among the local applicants is eligible for naturalizations, with the final decision left to the voters, the SVP says. While this system may be more difficult to implement in large cities, in small towns and villages, says Francis Matthey, a former socialist parliamentarian and currently President of the Federal Commission on Migration, "it would play right into the SVP's hands, because of the party's strong agrarian base." Under the current system a rejected candidate for citizenship has the right to appeal; the SVP wants any such decision to be irrevocable...
...Calif., is sending to her top choice, Dickinson College (she wants small classes and a chance to take Portuguese), along with a new teacher recommendation. Davison's classmate Jordan Vincent, whose heart is set on University of Virginia, has written a new essay on an unusual accomplishment: as a parliamentarian for the Texas Junior Classical League, a statewide group to promote study of Latin and Greek, Vincent worked with the IRS to revise the organization's bylaws so it could regain tax-exempt status...
...setting in motion a brief flurry of activity at the front of the Faculty Room, where Bisson, smiling, rose to tear a sheet of paper off of her small yellow notebook pad. Examining the sheet, University President Drew G. Faust conferred briefly with the meeting’s acting parliamentarian, Chinese History Professor Peter K. Bol, before making her pronouncement into the microphone: “no.” “I would like to say that I don’t think that that’s an argument for voting in favor of this motion...
...another Sadr ally, parliamentarian Ghofran al-Saidi, was far less willing to ease the pressure off the Iraqi government. She told TIME that despite Maliki's apparent act of goodwill, a blockade was still in effect around Sadr City Friday night, preventing the injured from reaching hospitals, and she saw little change after Maliki's statement. "There is a real resistance to this government among the people," she said...
...Corruption is fueling that growth: for example, the insurgency is funded by the cultivation of poppy and the smuggling of heroin, which many police and officials ignore. Last year Transparency International ranked Afghanistan 172 out of 180 countries surveyed for its Corruption Perceptions Index. "Corruption is the tree," says Parliamentarian Hossein Balkhi. "Terrorism, destabilization, smuggling and poppy are its branches; if you cut down corruption, the rest will...