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...veto. But the office carries huge symbolic importance, especially for the Turkish military, since one of the President's titles-albeit a ceremonial one-is commander-in-chief. The incumbent President, Ahmet Necdet Sezer, is a staunch secularist who was only too willing to wield his veto power to quash legislation and appointments he deemed too Islamist. As the ruling party, the AKP had a constitutional right to appoint one of its own to replace Sezer, and Erdogan came close to nominating himself for the job. In the end, he bowed out in the face of vigorous opposition from...
...actually increased the number of defenders we started behind the restraining line.” Nevertheless, Harvard once again succumbed to the early onslaught. The Tigers quickly demonstrated the form expected of the 13th-ranked team in the country, reeling off nine straight goals to quash Harvard’s hope of an upset. Ashley Amo and Katie Cox both scored for Princeton, followed by a three-minute span in which attack Kathleen Miller scored a hat trick for the Tigers. Princeton scored four more goals before the Harvard got on the board again. Finally, junior attack Tara Schoen stopped...
...negative feedback from his constituents. Greenfield said he received an e-mail from a former UC representative who was embarrassed over the UC’s “whimsical spending.” Despite such criticism, Hadfield said he remained confident that the success of the program would quash initial concerns. “I’m looking forward to boasting how many people are using the service after break,” he said, adding that the UC is criticized “every time [it] does something innovative.” The UC will...
What would you do if billions of dollars were stolen from you? Understandably upset by spreading music piracy, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has responded to that question by recently launching another campaign to quash the piracy of copyrighted material on college campuses across the country, which they claim has cost billions of dollars of lost revenue. While the RIAA’s concern is understandable—after all, piracy is illegal and the RIAA has every right to punish theft as they see fit—universities have no obligation to be proactive in aiding them...
...fact, of course, reforming the old socialist system is exactly the point of the law, individual property rights being a core tenet of a functioning capitalist economy. Last year, conservative voices had enough residual clout to get the legislation dropped from consideration. This year, in an evident move to quash dissent, all discussion of the property law was banned. When the respected weekly Caijing defied the ban and drafted a cover story on the law, authorities forced the magazine to drop the story at the last minute. That Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and President Hu Jintao were forced...