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...Bush logr? capturar el 40% del voto hispano, un incremento gigantesco sobre el 21% que recibi? Bob Dole en 1996. Ahora parcialmente jubilado, Sosa, de 66 a?os, se dedica a pintar y escribir (su ?ltimo libro, Think and Grow Rich: A Latino Choice, saldr? el pr?ximo a?o), pero si lo llaman en el 2008, volver? al campo de batalla electoral...
...printed Italian slogans. Part of the Vatican’s campaign to discourage Italians from voting down a law that restricts in vitro fertilization practices and bans embryonic stem cell research, these posters and pamphlets distributed by the Church bore messages such as “Sulla vita non si vota,” or “Life can’t be put to a vote.” Responding to calls from Benedict and the College of Cardinals to boycott the vote, the vast majority of eligible Italian voters declined to take part in the referendum, thus...
...Gaddafi regime. It may, instead, have compelled moderate Arab governments to rally behind Gaddafi. Mitterrand and Chirac complained to U.S. Envoy Vernon Walters that a limited bombing raid could stir up a new wave of Islamic extremism. "With a victory like that, who needs a defeat?" said Dominique Mo�si, a French strategic expert...
...Mo�si and others, however, conclude that a questionable military mission may end up having a desirable political result, and will not have lasting effects on the alliance. "Paradoxically, it has forced the Europeans to take stronger measures against Gaddafi." he says. "European passivity forced the Americans into military action, and American military action has forced the Europeans out of their passivity. The crisis should be short-lived. Neither side can afford to let it get more serious or last too long...
...home. "Taiwan has always been divided over the issue of how to deal with China," says Joseph Wu, chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council, Taiwan's top policymaking body on mainland issues. "China knows this. In [inviting Lien to China], it creates internal problems." Professor Lee Si-kuen, a professor of political science at National Taiwan University (and a KMT member), calls Lien's trip "the wrong thing at the wrong time," adding "it will aggravate the divisions in Taiwan society." Chang Hui-ching, 34, a historian at Taiwan's National Palace Museum, says the political schism is already...