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...house committees should have been held at the same time as the election to garner better turnout. All too easy, perhaps, but entirely appropriate. While we strongly opposed the referendum, we oppose even more strongly the actions of those four council executives who delayed the referendum in order to quash the student voice. Higher turnout would have resulted from a change in the voting date, allowing the will of the people to be better expressed...
...amount of time Kott spent there seem to contradict assertions that Oxford made in a civil case filed last year against Oxford, Kott and other defendants. After the plaintiffs tried to serve a summons on Kott at Oxford's offices, he and Oxford persuaded an appeals court judge to quash the summons. The main reasons: Kott had no office at JB Oxford, and he lived in Canada, not California. (Rubenstein says this isn't a contradiction because the office was provided to employees of Kott's consulting firm. Yet he acknowledges that the consulting-firm employee who occupied...
...Sprott cautions that "the difference comes in life-style changes, not in the pills you take." Health and biomedical researchers all agree that for now, the best offense against the ravages of time is a level-headed defense: watch your weight, knock off the booze, quash the cigarettes, get plenty of sleep and exercise, keep tabs on your blood pressure and, for good measure, fasten your seat belt...
...date, 31 states have taken up the same-sex-marriage issue, with mixed results: five states--Georgia, Kansas, Idaho, South Dakota and Utah--have enacted bans, and 13 others have rejected them. Gay activists are leaning on historical precedent to quash other efforts. "In our lifetime it was illegal to marry someone of the 'wrong race,'" says Evan Wolfson, who directs the Marriage Project for the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund in New York. "Our opponents talk about marriage like it's been the same for 6,000 years." Count on the religious right's taking the issue...
...before its upcoming election. The official Xinhua News Agency said China will conduct joint ground, naval and air exercises in the Taiwan Straits starting Monday, even as it declared the end of eight days of missile launches near the island. China has said that the exercises are intended to quash pro-independence sentiment on Taiwan as it prepares for its first direct presidential election on March 23. The new exercises would straddle the election in which pro-independence President Lee Teng-hui is expected to win another term. "China is hoping to derail Lee Teng-hui's election, but they...