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...talk about weather, soil, and the philosophy of the regions,” Meagher said before the event. “There are some wine shops that will talk you through it, but there’s a lot of mystery.” HSA has offered a popular bartending course since 1972, and a course similar to yesterday’s wine tasting was first conducted in 2004. “People had been bothering us about it, so we decided that we had enough people to start the course again,” said event organizer Julius...
...that clear-cut. Voter turnout - around 52%, the highest since 2004 - may have been inflated by the stature of the candidates, according to Ma Ngok, a political scientist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Chan, a chief secretary in the last British colonial administration, remains very popular six years after retiring from government. Meanwhile, Ip is still controversial for aggressively pushing anti-sedition legislation during her tenure as Hong Kong's Secretary for Security. Although Ip also positioned herself as pro-suffrage - she says she simply wishes to avoid a confrontation with Beijing over the issue - her past support...
...caused so little public discontent outside of small liberal enclaves of the middle class and die-hard supporters of the Communist Party. That lack of an outcry is just further proof that, despite what opposition figures liken to the authoritarian traditions of the communist era, Putin remains the overwhelmingly popular leader in Russia today...
...backlash mounted against the initially popular Voith as he was called out for allegedly breaking Election Commission postering regulations, soliciting candidates to collude with him, and flip-flopping before different student clubs about his beliefs on ROTC’s place at Harvard...
...instant-runoff system is a popular one at elite college campuses throughout the country, with student government elections at Dartmouth, Princeton, MIT, and Stanford using the system...