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...election pits the ruling party of President Milo Djukanovic, a former ally of Slobodan Milosevic who broke with the strongman in 1997, against a pro-Yugoslav opposition with close ties to the democratic leadership in Belgrade. If Djukanovic wins - and polls currently give his coalition 44% of the vote vs. 26% for his nearest rivals - he has vowed to hold a referendum on independence from Serbia as early as June. Various polls peg support for independence at between 47% and 58%, and that is likely to grow once a secessionist campaign begins. Djukanovic, 39, enjoys considerable personal authority...
...commies vs. capitalists, as during the 40 Years War with the Soviet Union, A.K.A. the cold war? There may be some of that, but it's hardly the main story in post-Mao China. The "capitalist-roaders" have won the day, and communism is but the fading red label on a gerontocratic regime locked in a desperate battle with the market forces it had itself unleashed in the era of Deng Xiaoping. The regime's message to the people is not about Mao and Marx but about money vs. might: enrich yourselves, but leave the driving...
...President saw this argument coming, and in his budget message tried to stake out a middle position familiar from his campaign stump speeches, rejecting the old dichotomy of Big Government vs. Small Government in favor of--well, both. He had "a new vision for governing the nation." "For too long," he said, "politics in Washington has been divided between those who wanted Big Government without regard to cost and those who wanted Small Government without regard to need." Yet Big-Government needs dominated his team's public presentations. Cabinet Secretaries rushed to the cameras to boast of increases for children...
Bollinger previously told The Crimson that if the U-M affirmative action policy were not upheld, society would run the risk of sliding "back into a world in which we don't attend to [civil rights] issues." He compared the implications of the current lawsuit to the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education {ITALICS...
PAROCHIAL VS. PUBLIC CATHOLIC SCHOOLS SCORE HIGHER...