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...dealt a setback by a committee from Taiwan's cabinet that voted to reject the referendum proposed by Chen's Democratic Progressive Party. But Chen has vowed to forge ahead and find a way to get it on the ballot. "I am sure that next year referendums on several issues will be held in tandem with the presidential election," he told the Washington Post last weekend...
...dealt a setback by a committee from Taiwan's cabinet that voted to reject the referendum proposed by Chen's Democratic Progressive Party. But Chen has vowed to forge ahead and find a way to get it on the ballot. "I am sure that next year referendums on several issues will be held in tandem with the presidential election," he told the Washington Post last weekend...
...Beyond the political shrapnel, however, Kyuma's gaffe represents a deeper setback to Abe. When he entered office last September as the youngest Prime Minister of the postwar period, Abe promised to make pacifist Japan as a normal nation, one that could defend itself and its allies on the world stage. He bumped up Kyuma's defense office to a Cabinet-level ministry, and set the revision of Japan's pacifist constitution as his signature issue. But Abe's vision of a more muscular Japan has excited few voters, who are more concerned with their pocketbooks, and constitutional revision...
Although the 169-129 loss to Rutgers and the second-place finish to Princeton at HYP mark Harvard’s first two losses in dual-meet action since 2004, the team responded to each setback this season with an impressive performance at the following meet...
...department's underlying culture and history of excessive force. Still, in an interview with TIME.com, Bratton sounded confident about his future. "I have no concerns at all about reappointment because all things considered I think we're doing okay," he says. "MacArthur Park no doubt will be a significant setback to the department's image, but we'll come out of it as we always do, learning from it, not hiding from it, willing to talk about it, and not circling the wagons...