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...dangerously fractured than ever after the passing of a national leader who stayed in power by navigating his way between many different and conflicting trends. Abbas is unlikely to be openly challenged, but nor will he be allowed to ride roughshod over the agendas of Hamas or the militant rank-and-file of Fatah, with which he has previously clashed. Abbas would most likely seek to revive his previous attempt, with Egyptian backing, to negotiate a "hudna" (cease-fire) among Palestinian factions - a process contemptuously dismissed by the Israeli leadership who demanded an all-out war on Hamas. Right...
...lack. (After all, no presidential candidate has received a majority of the popular vote since former president George H. W. Bush garnered a slim 53 percent in 1988.) Still, there is a superior solution that combines popular voting with a majority winner: instant runoff voting (IRV), in which voters rank candidates instead of just voting...
...perceived threat to the two-party system. But IRV, at least initially, will likely strengthen the two-party system, because it will decrease the chances of a third-party spoiler. So politicians have little excuse not to push for it. More serious concerns involve educating voters about the ranking system and refitting (or replacing) older punch-card and pull-lever voting technologies. But asking voters to rank candidates in their order of preference is hardly an overwhelmingly unreasonable (or confusing) request, and the proliferation of electronic voting machines increases the prospects for widespread IRV elections. Indeed, IRV voting has been...
...made the list in the hopes of fostering a bit of competition between universities, to encourage students to tell their friends about the site to get their rank up,” the site’s administrator, known only as Votemaster, wrote in an e-mail. “I guess I was surprised. I would have expected much larger schools, like Ann Arbor or Berkeley to be at the top since they are politically aware and very large...
SENTENCED. STAFF SERGEANT IVAN FREDERICK II, 38, highest-ranking Army reservist accused in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal; to eight years in prison; during a court martial in Baghdad. The sentence also includes a reduction in rank to private, a forfeiture of pay and a dishonorable discharge. Frederick, who pleaded guilty to five of eight charges, is one of seven charged in the scandal; his sentence is the longest of the three imposed thus...