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...confidence vote usually paves the way to a new government with a new set of coalition partners. This, obviously, cannot make sense in Britain, where it’s either Conservative or Labour. Furthermore, I strongly object to your wording “The no confidence vote is a relic of systems in which the executive needs approval from the legislature in order to rule.” Actually, it’s the American presidential system that is a relic of a time where the only system one could conceive was one with a central and independent executive power...
...Samuel Langdon, Class of 1740. Students petitioned the Corporation in 1780 to remove Langdon from his post. They wrote, “as a President, we despise you.” Langdon was the first Harvard president to be forced out of office. The no-confidence vote is a relic of systems in which the executive needs approval from the legislature in order to rule. But in the peculiar political structure of Harvard, it is the students—not the parliamentarians of the Faculty—who have proven capable of toppling the chief. —Staff writer...
...breakout role in the indie film “Latter Days,” in which he played a Mormon missionary who has a passionate—and explicit—affair with a Hollywood party boy. But the heterosexual Sandvoss describes his beefcake-photo Google hits as a relic from some early-career modeling work. However, he admits that the sites have been more than a little helpful for his career. “It’s inevitable that you’re going to be objectified...using it to work to your advantage is something...
...many ways, gold lust is a relic of the bad old India?an India of weak investor rights and shaky financial systems, where people distrusted banks and the stock market and preferred to store their wealth in tangible assets, chiefly gold and property. The recent economic boom has given Indians a range of sophisticated and relatively secure financial instruments: mutual funds, stocks, bonds, even abstract art. Richer Indians are, indeed, diversifying their investments. "At the top end of society, yes, [gold] consumption is beginning to decrease," says K. Shivram, a vice president of the World Gold Council in Madras...
Stocks have momentum again, and even though the market cooled a bit last week, some on Wall Street are daring to speak of--gulp--a record-high Dow Jones industrial average, which is just a 9% gain away. Yet even if that pans out, here's one bull-market relic that won't be making a comeback anytime soon: the celebrity mutual-fund manager...