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...produced a collection of other, more subtle challenges. In places as diverse as Kosovo and Colombo, new history is being written in the blood of deep-seated ethnic panics. "Global politics is being reconfigured along cultural lines," argues Harvard historian Samuel P. Huntington. "Political boundaries are increasingly redrawn to coincide with cultural ones: ethnic, religious and civilizational." At the same time, much of the world is being remade by a global economy that has linked political openness to economic growth. Democracy, always a moral high ground, turns out to be good for business. But the idea that we are moving...
...that reason, the Republican party was upset at the idea of statistical sampling. Census takers believed that this new method would compensate for those missed, and since that part of the county tends to be mostly Democratic, the Republican party felt they would lose seats if districts were redrawn. However, also included in the people missed in the Census are the rural poor, who usually tend to vote Republican, and so most people believe that few drastic changes will be necessary...
...various traditions bless dogs, kitchens, boats, books, vacations, and soccer fields, I cannot imagine denying a blessing to two men who love one another. Such denial would be deeply discriminatory. On the other hand, unless the laws change and the blurred line between ecclesiastical and civil authority is redrawn, the possibility of a same-sex marriage cannot in fact be decided by the Reverend Mr. Gomes, nor can Harvard, powerful as it is, settle the issue with policy-making. --Peter Kosewski Radcliffe College Communications Office
REDISTRICTING: Though three districts (18, 29 and 30) were found to be unconstitutional, 10 others (3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 22, 24, 25 and 26) also had to be redrawn, affecting voters mostly in the Houston and Dallas areas. The candidate profiles on the following pages for these districts are shaded...
...taken up the anti-government mantle, believing that 250,000 federal jobs could be cut without cutting services. If elected, Pouland vows to serve a maximum of six years even if term limits are not in place by the end of his third term. Though the district has been redrawn, this race attracted no new candidates...