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...planned to make a bid for the UC’s top spot, confirmed yesterday that he and running mate Andrew P. Oakland ’09 would be withdrawing from this year’s race because they feel they cannot formulate a platform distinct from what fellow candidate Matthew L. Sundquist ’09, the UC’s current vice president, will likely advance in his presidential bid. “As we were putting together a more concrete platform this weekend, we just thought that there wasn’t really that much differentiating...
...followers to fight American forces in Afghanistan. Fazlullah, who by then was Mohammed's son-in-law, also went to Afghanistan to fight. Radicalized by the experience, and by his short stint in an Afghan jail, he returned to continue the campaign for Shari'a using the platform of his popular radio show. "He is a very good speaker," says Zaibi Raziq. "He gets the attention of a lot of people." In a region plagued by corruption and government inefficiency, Fazlullah's demand for rule of law - even Islamic law - struck a chord. "Many of his listeners were poor...
...since she became a Senator six years ago? The answer, as anyone but her most blindly loyal supporters ought to see, is that there would have been no political advantage in doing so. Now is the ideal time to present it to voters as a key part of her platform. And Iowa, where the first votes will be cast, was the ideal place to unveil it. If that isn't slippery, cold and calculating, I don't know what...
...target her campaign with protest action if she declined to sign on. The New Hampshire-based Nonprofit Primary Project hopes to expand its work on a national scale ahead of next November's election. Its goal will be to put collaboration with charities and foundations in each party's platform next summer, and maybe even advocating for the naming of a Secretary of Community Service at some point in the future. Egger also hopes to persuade his nonprofit peers to emulate corporate America and form a Chamber of Commerce-type umbrella group to lobby Congress. He dismisses claims the sector...
...Shariat-e-Muhammaidi (Movement for the Enforcement of Islamic Law) in the 1990s. In 2002, TNSM was banned, and Muhammad thrown in jail for mobilizing thousands of his followers to fight American forces in Afghanistan. Fazlullah, by then his son-in-law, continued the campaign for Sharia using the platform of his popular radio show...