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...wildly different predictions of how someone is going to pay.” “The thing we know as political scientists is that demography is not destiny,” she added. Fiorina, the author of “Divided Government,” discussed split-ticket voters that intentionally choose one party for president and another for Congress, taking this path because of its perceived benefits. More than 80 faculty members, graduate and undergraduate students, and residents of the community packed the conference room at CGIS for the panel. “American politics looks very obscure...
...vote, a result that triggered outrage in Europe and, ultimately, sanctions from the European Union when the party was invited to join the government. Haider never held national office himself, preferring instead to work behind the scenes from his post as governor of Carinthia. Several years ago he split with the Freedom Party to form the Alliance for the Future of Austria. The Freedom Party's new leader is a former Haider protege named Heinz-Christian Strache, who is 39. In the most recent campaign, both parties did especially well among young Austrians. Nearly 50% of those under 30 supported...
...Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn, concerned about the economic health of these struggling clubs, split each league into two six-team divisions; that way, more teams could contend until later in the season, boosting attendance and local TV ratings. The winner of each division would then have to play a best-of-five series to take the league title. Kuhn could also sell these extra games to national TV broadcasters, filling baseball's coffers...
...Chalfie will split the $1.4 million prize—awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences—with Roger Y. Tsien ’72, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, and Osamu Shimomura, an emeritus professor at Boston University Medical School...
...moral authority enjoyed by the ANC under Mandela, thanks to its leadership of the anti-apartheid struggle, has been been squandered. The generation of South Africans who'll be eligible to vote for the first time next year have grown up in a post-apartheid democratic environment. The split in the ANC may be a sign of a maturing politics, in which a party's claim to power will have to rest on more than past glories...