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Turnout in the race far exceeded the expectations of most experts, with almost 82,000 out of 350,000 eligible voters hitting the polls. In 2005, a total of 41,000 people voted in the preliminary election...
...contested mayoral contest,” said former City Councilor Lawrence S. DiCara ’71, who continues to follow Boston politics closely. “Because we’ve had arguably two viable candidates and one gadfly [in addition to Menino], people have focused on this race over the summer. It’s the first time that’s happened since...
...think third parties have a shot in the next elections? Sure. They'll be called the Bloomberg Party. Some billionaire will come in like Perot and turn it into a three-way race. There's so many billionaires, and a few of them are quite enlightened. You don't need a right-wing billionaire because they've already got the Republican Party...
...Israel has long maintained a policy of "strategic ambiguity" about its nuclear-weapons capability, hinting that it can deter any aggression with overwhelming force, but without inviting the international scrutiny of a fully declared program - or sparking a regional arms race. That position went largely unchallenged for some three decades. But in 2003, the IAEA accused Iran, which had started a civilian nuclear-energy program during the reign of the U.S.-backed Shah, of falling short of NPT transparency requirements. Although the IAEA has never accused Iran of trying to build a bomb, intelligence agencies in Israel and the West...
...offer Israel extra security guarantees, like partnership with NATO. And then there's the fact that what the Iran threat represents is a changed game; Israel isn't the only regional player to benefit from the perception that it wields a nuclear deterrent. The danger of a regional arms race creates a new and compelling fear - Arabs with nukes - that may prompt Israel to re-examine its assumptions. Still, having developed whatever nuclear capability it may possess precisely in order to give itself a strategic trump card free of dependence on allies, Israel will not easily surrender its ambiguous weapon...