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...SENTENCED. MUHAMMAD NAZAR, 30, political activist arrested in February for promoting an Acehnese independence referendum; to five years in prison for sedition; in Banda Aceh, Indonesia...
...also a member of the Committee for Cambridge Rent Control, which proposes to return rent control—which was ended by a statewide ballot referendum in the mid-1990s—to Cambridge...
...majority. The big forces constraining Blair's future are evident in the minicrises that have recently dogged him. After years of complex, elegant waffling over the euro, he announced in early June another complex, elegant waffle over the euro, to which voters remain decisively opposed. No one expects a referendum will be called until after the next election. That almost certainly means at least three more years of awkward limbo, with Blair unable to anchor his pro-euro sentiments in any specific policy and thwarted in his big ambition to lead Britain into the heart of the Continent. Foreign policy...
...social services community with his autocratic management style and draconian reforms. Lewis was the driving force behind the randomization of upper class housing, a move which has won plaudits from many, but which Lewis himself has said he suspects would be instantly overturned in a student referendum. Many of Lewis’ more minor reforms have also aroused the ire of the student body, most recently the ban on kegs at Harvard’s home games...
...troops out of Chechnya and promised that he would put an end to the routine abductions and executions of Chechen civilians. Yet more than 200 people have been abducted since the vote took place. "We know for a fact that the reprisals have grown much worse after the referendum, contrary to what the Russians promised," says a senior U.S. diplomat. "We raised this issue with them and told them they must do something to shore up their pledges...