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...general financial incompetence and mismanagement, the Council has generated a plethora of scandals. Remember Maya Prabhu who rigged an election last year? And already this year the Council has experienced a scandal of sorts as the election for the Vice-Presidency has fallen into dispute. After expressly voting to suspend the by-laws in order to include absentee ballots in the election, these ballots were arbitrarily nullified in the run-off election. And these ballots made the difference in the final tally. Weeks after the issue was raised by a vote teller, the Council finally voted--they voted...
...Council had to vote to suspend a by-law which states that it may not consider funding resolutions until a budget has been agreed upon. Because Gabay has not yet submitted this year's budget, the Council would not have been able to discuss the $925 concert resolution...
...jumped ship after the company decided to put his dream plant in Hungary rather than in his hometown of Amorebieta, Spain. Volkswagen had wooed Lopez with promises to build his | plant in Amorebieta, but the dismal state of European car sales forced VW chairman Ferdinand Piech to suspend plans for the factory two weeks ago. On top of Volkswagen's $780 million first-quarter loss and bleak prospects for the rest of the year, Piech could hardly justify the ambitious project...
...said he would suspend judgment of the actual policy until it was issued, and said that the committee members hoped the ban would be lifted so that Harvard's participation in the ROTC program could continue...
...eleventh hour, North Korea agreed late on Friday to "suspend" its withdrawal from the pact, pulling Asia back from the start of a nuclear arms race. If Pyongyang will permanently rejoin the treaty and agree to inspections, the U.S. is ready to cancel its yearly military exercises with South Korea and make a "no first use" pledge not to initiate the use of nuclear weapons on the peninsula. While U.S. officials are still puzzled by North Korea's actions, they say they now realize how deeply inspections disturbed its closed society...