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Flores said the recent election exposed deep flaws in the EC—which is responsible for administering UC elections. “We realize the process is messed up...it’s credibility has been attacked,” she said...
...incorrectly stated that an e-mail sent by Kia J. McLeod '10 alleged that Eric N. Hysen '11 had accessed the official voting software and tampered with the vote tally. In fact, McLeod merely wrote—in conjunction with "an underlying concern about the validity of the voting process"—that Hysen "might still have" access to the voting software...
...Taliban's local roots, Obama officials suggest, also make it harder to vanquish than al-Qaeda. The implication is that as with Hizballah and Hamas, the U.S.'s only realistic goal is to bring the Taliban into the political process. Despite his decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, Obama has abandoned the goal of making the country Taliban-free. For all the attention it has received, the decision about troop levels is essentially tactical: it's an effort to win the military leverage necessary to persuade elements of the Taliban that they're better off in government...
Whether or not she would have weathered a Senate confirmation process for the federal prosecutor post is now moot because the nomination has been dropped. In any case, Hanes already has another job in Washington, a political appointment with the Justice Department at a post overseeing juvenile justice issues. Those close to Baucus are concerned that he let the Hanes revelation come up while he was in the middle of the health-care battle, possibly the most crucial legislative action of his long career...
...eventually opening their long-closed border. That agreement is one of the U.S. Administration's chief foreign policy successes to date. Obama, who shied away from a campaign pledge to recognize the 1915 mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman soldiers as genocide in favor of supporting a bilateral peace process, will press Erdogan to ratify the deal in parliament as soon as possible. (Read "Friends No More? Why Turkey and Israel Have Fallen...