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While Driskell scored more than twice as many votes as the second-place candidate, the referendum to raise the council's term bill--which outgoing council president Noah Z. Seton '00 had trumpeted as the cure to the council's financial woes--was ultimately rejected by a majority of voters...
Many council members have deemed the failure of the referendum a major defeat, after having invested a great deal of time and energy into supporting its passage...
Bradley L. Davis '00, who last month encouraged the council to bring the fee hike to a student referendum, joined several other council members in arguing that the term bill failed because the rhetoric of more money to student groups didn't play well the student body...
...dean, who supported the fee hike, registered his surprise that the referendum failed...
...alarmed the country's traditional elites as well as foreign investors with his left-leaning policies and his overt admiration for Cuba's President Fidel Castro, Chavez last week received a ringing endorsement from his electorate when 72 percent of voters supported his new constitution in a referendum. The constitution entrenches the president's power and allows him to potentially remain in office until 2012. It also affirms state ownership of Venezuela's oil industry, which Chavez hopes will fuel his "new economy" that redistributes wealth among the poor. While the flood is a win-win scenario for Chavez...