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When voters go to the polls in eight states on Tuesday, pundits will go to work. From California, where Democrats will select a challenger to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, to Alabama, where voters are expected to overwhelmingly approve a referendum banning gay marriage, these election results will be scrutinzed by political observers for clues as to where the country is heading - and whether the Republicans will face trouble in this November's mid-term elections...
Growing up (as I did) in the province of Québec, you learn not just the joys but also the perils of bilingualism. A separate national identity, revolving entirely around "Francophonie," became a raging issue that led to social unrest, terrorism, threats of separation and a referendum that came within a hair's breadth of breaking up Canada...
...Next month Toowoomba will vote in a referendum on whether treated wastewater should make up 25% of the city's drinking water. With state and federal governments keenly awaiting the outcome, a heated contest is underway to win public favor. Morley, who founded the Citizens Against Drinking Sewage lobby group 10 months ago, says locals talk of little else: "People go to funerals and after a cup of tea what does the talk turn to? Water." Contrary to the popular image, that water wouldn't flow straight from their toilets to their taps. But though scientists insist that wastewater recycled...
...followed by the grotesque terrors of artillery fire and burning villages that sent convoys of refugees toiling through Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo (Macedonia slipped out easily, but that was only because Milosevic was busy elsewhere at the time). Although harsh words were used by both sides during the referendum campaign in Montenegro, the decision was reached through a democratic process, and Serbian President Boris Tadic was among the first to congratulate Montenegrins on their newly acquired autonomy. Moreover, now that we're all alone, we Serbs can finally focus on putting our own house in order and getting...
ISMAIL HANIYEH, Palestinian Prime Minister, urging restraint in a power struggle between his Hamas party and the rival Fatah bloc of President Mahmoud Abbas--who said he would call a referendum on a proposal for peace with Israel if Hamas, which refuses to recognize the Jewish state, does not accept the plan within 10 days...