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...economic practicality. As an undergraduate, Sproul studied bacteriology and had no journalistic ambitions. She said she simply “fell into” a position at a radio center upon graduation, where she fell again—this time for the rush of having a front seat to national and international events...
Jeanne Shaheen, who stepped down as director of the Institute of Politics on Friday to run for the U.S. Senate from New Hampshire, lost by 4 percent the last time she sought the seat in 2002. But changes in the state’s political dynamics suggest that she might face an easier time in the upcoming race...
...request for U.N. admission by Taiwan is largely symbolic. As a member of the Security Council, China can veto any application, and Taiwan has tried - and failed - to regain membership more than a dozen times since being expelled in 1971, when the U.N. granted China's seat to Beijing. American censure, therefore, comes mostly out of a desire to avoid upsetting what has always been a tenuous peace between the mainland and Taiwan. In July, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang warned the proposed vote could "have a grave impact on cross-Straits relations and seriously endanger peace and stability...
Shaheen will compete for the seat in a state that has trended increasingly Democratic in recent years. In 2004, New Hampshire voters chose Kerry over George W. Bush, and elected a Democrat, former Harvard Business School admissions director John Lynch, to serve as the state's governor...
...Benefiting from the backlash against Greece's two main parties, the far-right Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) party is expected to break the three percent threshold needed to enter the country's 300-seat parliament. Georgios Karatzaferis founded the LAOS after Karamanlis expelled him from the New Democracy party for his extreme views. A 2005 U.S. State Department report on anti-Semitism cited Karatzaferis as "regularly attributing negative events involving Greece to Jewish plots. He denounced politicians with Jewish origins and claims that Jews were behind the Sept. 11 attacks." The party has attracted droves of voters, however, though many...