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...encourage and recognize achievement in high school theater. Now they've grown to 17 regions around the country and three cities in Canada. Schools that choose to participate submit one or two productions apiece (plays as well as musicals), which are reviewed by teams of student critics - who then vote electronically for their favorites. This year's nominations in 37 categories were just announced, and the awards will be handed out in a gala at Washington's Kennedy Center on June...
...lives to see one of us - qualified, experienced and capable - run in the national election with a chance of winning. Still, I don't think the divides fracturing Democrats right now are too difficult to bridge. We are not so unwise as to sulk, stay home or vote for John McCain. Cecilie Bodnar, Canandaigua...
...when the government decided to continue with a constitutional referendum that international observers say is designed to cement its hold on power. Although the sham plebiscite was postponed for two weeks in some of the worst storm-affected areas, other devastated regions were forced to hold the vote. Thousands of soldiers were mobilized to guard polling stations; hundreds of trucks mounted with loudspeakers fanned the nation, urging citizens to vote. Critics wondered how many lives might have been saved if some of those resources had been redeployed instead to the cyclone-relief effort. "People expect so little from the government...
...able to plant the next batch of seedlings because of salt-water inundation. Future shortages could spell dissent: at least five protest movements in Burma's recent history happened in the months when grain prices were at their highest. In a startling indication of dissatisfaction, an official counting referendum votes in Rakhine state told a Rangoon journalist that in 15 townships, the "no" vote ranged from 56% to 98%. (In Burma, it is unlikely that official results will reflect such inconvenient public sentiment...
...reform agenda have left conservatives disinclined to follow his lead. That wariness among his own allies contributed to the multiplication of problems the increasingly unpopular Sarkozy has faced this year. "As long as he was popular and helping the right win elections, conservatives in parliament were happy to vote through whatever Sarkozy told them to," says Reynié. "Now they are not only refusing to do that, but on issues like the GMO law, openly demonstrating that they stand with the public, not with the President and government...