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Residents of Pforzheimer House defeated a House-wide referendum last night that would have given special consideration in this year’s housing lottery to residents of the dilapidated Jordan overflow dorms...
...proposal proceeded to a House referendum after it failed to pass a HoCo vote two weeks ago by a eight-to-five margin, with four members abstaining...
...former state senator and 1998 contender for Lt. Governor is the only democrat running as a Clean Elections candidate—a 1998 ballot initiative passed in a state referendum to decrease the influence of money in politics...
...vote and will be inaugurated on May 20 as the leader of the world's newest independent country. In 1999 troops and militias aligned with the Jakarta government rampaged through the countryside, killing hundreds of people and creating 260,000 refugees following a U.N.-sponsored referendum, in which voters favored secession from Indonesia...
...More worrisome is the possibility that Musharraf, with no nationwide political organization to back him, may cozy up to the extremist Islamic groups he's been trying to restrain. He'll win the referendum of his choosing, but if doing so emboldens the forces of Islamic extremism, that victory could end up Pyrrhic...