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...that end, the council will be sponsoring another poll to be conducted over e-mail from today through Thursday. Students should type "ucvote" at the fas prompt to indicate their preferences...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Justice Department is looking into whether the Chinese Embassy was used as a planning center for foreign contributions to the Democratic National Committee. While details of the investigation remain sketchy, a "well-placed" source close to the probe reports that foreign counterintelligence considerations could prompt Attorney General Janet Reno to appoint an independent counsel to look into Democratic campaign finance, reports The Washington Post. Reno has previously refused to appoint a counsel, citing the lack of evidence showing wrongdoing among high-level executive branch officials. Although a Chinese Embassy spokesman denies that China ever meddled in overseas...
Both the Times and the AP suggested that the tragedy might prompt what they consider to be the inevitable "question" of Israel's presence in southern Lebanon. If this question is to be raised (which was doubtless one objective of the Times and AP articles), then the basis of their inquiry is misinformed. The Times, the AP, and others fall into the trap of drawing a parallel between this incident and Israel's defensive involvement in Lebanon where, in fact, no such connection inheres...
What the council should have done was schedule the budget referenda at the same time as the elections but require two different ballots. To vote for candidates, a student could have typed "ucrace" at the fas% prompt, and to vote for the budget issues, "ucmoney." This would have separated the campaign from the issues, a distinction that naturally occurred anyway...
...line voting will begin immediately after the close of election this afternoon. Students can type "ucvote" at the prompt to vote yes or no on the two referenda...