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...major North American political party earlier this month by winning the leadership of the separatist Parti Quebecois (PQ) in Canada. Even after Boisclair admitted to using cocaine in office, he secured 58.6 percent of his party’s vote and is promising to put forward a referendum on Quebec’s sovereignty within the next two years. With his party gaining momentum following the election, Boisclair has his sights set on the Premiership of Quebec. Securing such a position would make the 39-year-old Montreal native the first openly gay official elected to head a state...
...referendum Harvard undergraduates selected the school’s color, and since that time crimson has become the most visible symbol of Harvard. It is not only the shade of Harvard apparel, but also the title of the daily newspaper. Most interestingly, Crimson—usurping the place of our official mascot, the “pilgrim-like” John Harvard—now serves as the name of our athletic teams and, by extension, the nickname of the entire student body. It should come as no surprise that there has been little enthusiasm for a mascot that adds...
...state's proceeds from the tobacco industry lawsuit settlement should go to health education, antismoking campaigns and--get this--Medicaid expansion. Partly because of opposition from his own party, Huckabee's tobacco plan got bottled up in the Arkansas house. So he put it before voters, and the referendum passed, 64% to 36%, in 2000. Huckabee also helped persuade voters to increase their own gas taxes to fund long-overdue highway repairs in 1999. The previous Governor, Jim Guy Tucker, Clinton's Democratic successor, had tried and failed to pass a highway program...
...takes schoolteachers to qualify for tenure, required public-sector unions to get permission from members before using their dues for political campaigns, turned congressional redistricting over to a panel of retired judges rather than legislators, and created a new mechanism to cap government spending. Their rejection was a stinging referendum on Schwarzenegger, whose approval ratings have dropped from 61% a year ago to 33%, with just over a year before he runs for re-election. "If I would do another Terminator movie," Schwarzenegger told reporters, "I would have Terminator travel back in time to tell Arnold not to have...
...Wyclef. In actuality, the March 8, 2004 article, “Wyclef Voted Top Choice for Concert,” covered a UC-representative-only vote on an HCC-written list of potential performers for the spring 2004 concert. That McCambridge attempted to pass this off as a student referendum is further proof that the HCC needs a higher-degree of accountability...