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...Already by March 2006, it was clear that the Orange Revolution had began to turn sour, when the Party of the Regions (PR) led by Victor Yanukovych - the Moscow ally who had lost the presidential race to Yushchenko - won a 32% plurality of the votes in the legislative election. The BYUT party of Yuliya Tymoshenko, erstwhile flamboyant princess of the Orange Revolution who had been fired as premier by Yushchenko six months earlier, finished second. Yushchenko's Our Ukraine (OU) barely made the third place...
...work, but we have no rights,” said Victor Beltran, a Haitian laborer speaking to The New York Times. “We do all the work, but our children cannot go to school. We do all the work, but our women cannot go to the hospital. We do all the work, but we have to stay hidden in the shadows...
...taken a while for gender bias to fade out and for this infusion of women into the medical system to mature to the point that they have all of the accomplishments and background one would want for these top jobs.” Dr. Victor J. Dzau, who is chancellor for health affairs at Duke and was part of the search team, called Andrews a “nurturing figure” who will serve as an example for the medical students at Duke, particularly women and minorities. “Many female students, physicians and scientists are concerned...
They should have known better themselves. Nazarbayev's staff indeed had been preparing for a token opposition presence in the new Majilis, according to Victor Kiyanitsa, until recently a senior government official and now an independent political analyst. But, he explains, "It's not even they who decide the returns, it's the regional authorities." Nazarbayev's staff targeted 77% for Nur-Otan, Kiyanitsa says, but regional governors zealously competed to show loyalty to the President and over-fulfilled their quotas. Sometimes, authoritarianism can't help itself...
...Victor Strasburger, professor of pediatrics at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and a spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics, says "using advertising in a positive way just doesn't sit right with me. It's Orwellian. To put it bluntly, advertising to children under the age of seven or eight is electronic child abuse. I think we ought to leave kids who are under seven or eight out of all advertising...