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...which we size up our options is at the same time the most beautiful and frustrating element of our electoral process. In this way, the choice between Senators Clinton and Obama represents neither a battle of the sexes, nor a clash of black versus white, but rather, an unprecedented referendum on the mechanics of our democracy. Audrey J. Kim ’09 is a history concentrator in Adams House...
...agricultural produce even more. Despite the massive windfall Venezuelans have accrued from $100-a-barrel oil, they face sharp food shortages and the region's highest inflation rate. If Chavez were to exacerbate the situation by entering a war, his political popularity - which has dropped since he lost a referendum last year in which he sought greater powers and an unlimited tenure - would plummet...
Spurred to action by the defeat of his constitutional referendum last December, Chavez is tackling the problem aggressively for the first time since he took office nine years ago. He says businesses have been hoarding goods until they can be sold at higher prices. In the last two months, he's created a new food distribution company, increased government controls and made overt threats to private business, including the nation's largest food producer and distributor, Polar...
...plan was written in response to a referendum last fall in which nearly 90 percent of undergraduates voted to support a reduction of the Faculty’s greenhouse gas emissions...
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has blustered and wriggled his way out of some tricky situations in the past, but the former army commando may have finally met his match. A day after Musharraf's party crashed to a humiliating defeat in parliamentary elections widely seen as a referendum on the President's rule, calls for him to step down are becoming louder and more numerous by the hour. Aitzaz Ahsan, a lawyer and opposition leader who has spent the past three months under house arrest following Musharraf's crackdown on the judiciary, told the French News Agency that the President...