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...Mara, the Giants owner, says the competition committee discusses overtime reform every off-season. In both 2003 and 2004, owners voted on a scaled-back version of the proposal outlined above. Each team would be guaranteed a single offensive possession, but after that, it would be sudden death, first to score wins. Not 100% fair, but a vast improvement over the current rules. To implement a rule change, three-fourths of the owners must agree with the proposal. In '03, just 55% of the owners approved it. The next year, only 22% jumped on board...
...These are very different tenets than you associate with what the Ad Board does,” said Sundquist, who won the UC presidency last fall on a platform of Ad Board reform, and serves on the Ad Board Review Committee...
Sundquist said that the reform committee will discuss the case before the SFJB as it unfolds. “It’s hard to know what’s going to happen because it’s uncharted waters for everyone,” he said...
...Perhaps negative campaigns are inevitable, and perhaps they are necessary. In the interest of discourse, we rationalize argument; in the interest of reform, criticism; in the interest of transparency, gossip. Perhaps. But what ends, exactly, justify these means...
...Afghanistan will be at the top of the U.S. priorities for Europe," says Tomas Valasek, director of foreign policy and defense at the Centre for European Reform, a London think tank. He says Obama will appeal for more soldiers in the dangerous southern part of Afghanistan to fight Taliban insurgents. "Obama will put more troops in the country and expect Europe to do the same. And even though all European governments are short on troops and money, many will respond in kind." (See pictures of Obama's family tree...