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...with administrators, Flores made it her stated priority to focus on relationships with students. But in a semester defined by planned reductions in College spending on student life, Flores was forced to refocus her attention toward College politics, though perhaps too late.Flores and her Council found themselves without a seat at the table when decisions were made, generally unable to influence policy until news has already been delivered to the student body’s inboxes.“On a couple matters, albeit somewhat important ones, the Council has been reactionary,” says Randall S. Sarafa...
...present age, we have experienced again the consequences of unchecked, one-party dominance. From 2001-2007, Republicans controlled both Houses of Congress and the White House. At the height of its power, following the 2004 elections, Republicans had a 55-seat Senate majority and a 232-seat House majority. Some party leaders got carried away and pursued policies that grew their own power at the expense of American taxpayers. Their unlimited power led to runaway spending, an explosion in obscenely wasteful and parochial earmarks, a lack of transparency, and once again corruption that sent several members of Congress to court...
...spent his entire career in public life. Worked for the Watertown city manager for five years and then served as a staffer for New York state Senator Douglas Barclay. Served in Barclay's seat from...
...seat in the Brussels body still appears strangely attractive to a raft of minor celebrities. Among the candidates hoping to be elected or re-elected are former Czech astronaut Vladimir Remek; Finland's four-time winner of the Paris-Dakar rally, Ari Vatanen; Bulgarian Taekwondo champion and nightclub impresario Slavi Binev; and Paul Georg Maria Joseph Dominikus von Habsburg, the grandson of the last Austro-Hungarian emperor. Also making a bid is Gigi Becali, the owner of Romania's Steaua Bucharest soccer club, who is facing kidnapping charges...
...Even when big names top the party lists, they are sometimes figureheads who have no intention of serving out their terms. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, for example, is unlikely to take up his seat if, expected, he is elected - even if Brussels might be a sanctuary of sorts from his major woman problems of late. (Read: "Berlusconi and the Girl: No Spice, Thank...