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...south had hammered out the final details of a peace deal. The agreement, to be signed on Jan. 9, will give the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement a share of political power and oil wealth during a six-year transition period, after which the south can hold a referendum on whether to secede. "Africa begins the year 2005 on a very good footing," said South African President Thabo Mbeki, who helped close the deal. "Let's party!" But few believe this will end Sudan's problems. Two decades of fighting have turned southern Sudan into a wasteland, yet nearly...
...Medicine by regulation is better than medicine by referendum...
Critics of the wind energy fee are quick to caution against a slippery slope. This is the second straight year a referendum on optional termbill charges has passed through the student body and come under the discretionary eye of the Faculty Council—the first being last year’s increase in the student activities fee. It is easy to see how some might fear an eventual laundry list of termbill items with Harvard students (and their parents) doling out funding to save the pandas, free Tibet or any of a number of other causes, charitable or otherwise...
...based on whatever story a flurry of ad campaigns can sell to the undergraduate body, the experience of the EAC serves as a counterexample in point. If the wind energy fee appears on the termbill next fall, it will have survived heated debate in the Undergraduate Council, a popular referendum and the review of the Faculty Council. With so many (and such diverse) checks on the necessity and appropriateness of a given proposal, it seems unlikely that plans irrelevant to undergraduate life will make it through the process...
...blocs in a race for seats in the National Assembly. Choosing the 275-seat assembly that will appoint a new government and then draft a new constitution will be post-Saddam Iraq's first exercise in democracy. That constitution will be put to the vote in a national referendum on October 15, and will then become the basis of new national elections to be held two months later. In something of a crash course in democracy, Iraqi voters will be expected to go to the polls on three separate occasions next year...