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...elimination of term limits in Venezuela could firmly establish a trend that, according to those who oppose such restrictions, will strengthen democracy by allowing voters to decide how long a popular leader can stick around. Term-limit proponents, however, say Chávez's triumph will only carry the region back to its authoritarian past. "What Venezuelan voters decide is their business," says John Walsh, a senior associate at the Washington Office on Latin America, an independent think tank. "But a threshold does seem to have been crossed...
...India's help was needed to strengthen the government's legal case, Qureshi said. "What they said was not legally tenable," he added, in a reference to the Indian dossier. "We need evidence that can stand up to the test of law." India promised to share whatever information it can with Pakistan. "This is a positive development," the Indian Ministry of External Affairs said of Pakistan's findings. "It remains India's goal to bring the perpetrators of the terrorist attack on Mumbai to book, and to follow this process through...
Leadership from the Student Labor Action Movement and the Harvard-Radcliffe Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transsexual, and Supporters Alliance declared their support for the dining hall staff union’s efforts to strengthen the anti-discrimination language of their contract at an open meeting last night. The two student organizations also plan to campaign to broaden the scope of the university’s anti-discrimination policy to include all workers. Students met with four dining hall workers to prepare a reaction to allegedly anti-gay remarks made by a manager in a dining hall a few weeks ago. According...
...SEAS is slated to have a major part in the new Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, funded by a $125 million dollar donation and touted as a part of the Allston science complex that would strengthen the University’s nascent engineering efforts...
...another matter. "None of the things [the U.S.] cares about are in his control," says Christine Fair, a South Asia expert at the Rand Corp. Pakistan's security forces and intelligence agencies are hardly answerable to the civilian government. Still, the Obama Administration could at least try to strengthen Zardari's hand. A bill proposed last year by then Senator Joe Biden and Senator Richard Lugar calls for trebling U.S. economic assistance to Pakistan, to $1.5 billion annually for five years, with a possible extension for another five years. The bill enjoys bipartisan support and looks likely to pass. Spent...