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...disagree with the argument that this bill is too contentious for the U.C. to address. It is not the role of elected officials to avoid division and controversy. Last year the U.C. debated the termbill fee increase despite a deep split within the Council, and ultimately, the Council reached a decision to increase the fee. Representative government exists so that elected officials will tackle tough issues, debate the merits of different sides, and then reach a decision. If this were a direct democracy, then every student could vote on every issue. However, this is not a direct democracy...
...position to win another term in elections expected in May, which could provide momentum for the yes campaign he promises to lead. It won't be easy. A January Eurobarometer poll had 30% opposed, 20% in favor, but a more recent ICM poll showed the public split 39% to 39% when presented with the exact wording of the referendum. Yet the same sample said they would ditch the constitution, 54% to 26%, if they had to vote tomorrow. Those numbers make both sides nervous. The British public is "more skeptical and hostile than they have ever been to Europe," according...
...assumed had been orchestrated. The odd episode reinforced the Administration's view that Putin's impressions of America are often based on urban myths fed to him by ill-informed aides. (At a past summit, according to Administration aides, Putin asked Bush whether it was true that chicken producers split their production into plants that serve the U.S. and lower-quality ones that process substandard chicken for Russia.) U.S. aides say that to help fight against this kind of misinformation, they are struggling to build relationships that go beyond Putin. "We need to go deeper into the well into other...
...important for us to split the series with Columbia,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said. “We felt very disappointed when we got beat down [in New York...
...mentality--and that size might not be yours. The American Century My Retirement 2025 Portfolio, for example, aims this year to have 67% in stocks, 28% in bonds and 5% in a money market. Yet Vanguard Target Retirement 2025--pursuing the identical goal--holds a 59% stock, 41% bond split...