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...level 11 percent below total emissions in 1990 by the year 2020”—a bit more than the level mandated by the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on the national level. On Sunday, the Undergraduate Council (UC) will vote on whether this resolution will appear as a referendum on next month’s UC presidential election ballot. Although putting the measure to a student vote is well-intentioned, the referendum does not belong on the ballot this fall...
...were largely fought over economic policies, as are, at least in part, the recent battles in Oaxaca. The campaign exposed a yawning chasm between those benefiting from the status quo and those falling further behind: almost 48% of Mexicans continue to live in poverty. The election was also a referendum on NAFTA, which has strengthened Caldern's political base in the north. But in the south, NAFTA is the source of a steep decline in jobs partly because of a surge in U.S.-taxpayer-subsidized agricultural sales--without a commensurate jump in manufacturing employment...
...voters of Michigan made a poor decision last night when they approved the referendum known as “Proposal...
...results were not a stinging referendum on the Bush presidency, they certainly represent a vote of no confidence on the war in Iraq, which has claimed more than 2000 American lives and left more than 20,000 soldiers injured almost four years after its beginning. It also suggested that Americans were unhappy with the federal response to Hurricane Katrina and the explosion of the deficit on the Republican watch...
...exit polls suggest that the Bush Administration and its handling of the Iraq war also weighed heavily on voters' minds. "What brought Talent down wasn't Talent," said pollster and Saint Louis University political science professor Ken Warren. "There's no question about it, this was a referendum on the Bush Administration...