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...proposed amendment to the constitution, which can be brought to a national vote only if the sponsors gather 100,000 signatures. (For the animal-lawyers initiative, supporters collected 144,000 signatures.) A referendum, which requires just 50,000 signatures, is a vote on whether to accept or reject laws made by parliament, like when the public overwhelmingly approved the decision to renew Switzerland's heroin-distribution program in 2008. "They are powerful instruments for launching new laws and correcting policies, and they are an integral part of our culture," says Andreas Auer, director of the Centre for Research on Direct...
Events around campus have begun to get hot and heavy after the Yale Pundits interrupted a Yale Political Union Debate entitled “Resolved: Reject Hookup Culture" by hooking up...everywhere...
...turned down the chance to win $700 million in federal money. No one does that, except extremely conservative Southern governors (who inevitably relent and take the money) - oh, and occasionally teachers' unions. A few years ago, I wrote here about the Detroit union that forced the local government to reject a $200 million philanthropic gift to build 15 charter schools using a model that was already succeeding in the city. And now we have New York's United Federation of Teachers (UFT), a storied crew, thwarting the state's attempt to file an application that might have won $700 million...
...reject that totally. There was no violation of human rights. There were no civilian casualties. If I did that, it wouldn't have taken 2½ years to finish this. I would have done this in a few hours. These are all propaganda." - Responding to accusations that the cost of ending the Sri Lankan civil war was too high (TIME, July...
...some are contradicting Daniel Crowley's story. Juan Martinez, the governor's spokesperson, said Deval had not been involved in the decision to reject Crowley, and Daniel Zivkovich, executive director of the Municipal Police Training Committee, stated that the academy had not extended an invitation to Crowley, though he had been mentioned as a possible speaker. Crowley declined to comment on the issue...