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...vote of 31-0, with four members abstaining, and the rest not casting any ballot.)Therefore, when the Council moved to vote on 62.35, confusion abounded among most council members over how many votes were needed for the bill’s passage: a majority or two-thirds? The parliamentarian, Greenfield, claimed that since any mention of bylaws requirements had been removed from the previously passed legislation, then the Council must follow the most recent rule on the subject, Article 7 of the Constitution, which called for a majority. With bravado and raucous applause, UC Representative Eric I. Kouskalis...
...island dispute a particularly pressing issue, there are still plenty of tough-talking, right-wing Japanese politicians to confirm Korea's worst fears that the country is just itching to press its claims. "There are probably no valuable resources under the islands," concedes Shigeru Ishiba, a prominent conservative Japanese parliamentarian. "So it's a piece of rock." Nevertheless, Japan can't abandon this particular piece of rock, Ishiba insists, because such "matters of territory are about national sovereignty...
...some funding from the Tigers but is reputed for its independence, has recorded the death of more than 70 Tamil civilians since Rajapakse's election, killed by the army or plainclothes death squads. The killings include the execution-style shooting of five Tamil students, the assassination of a Tamil parliamentarian in church on Christmas Eve, and the murder of a Tamil actress, her sister and mother at home in Jaffna...
...still a long way off in most of the region. Opponents of the Kuwaiti reform lament that the country will soon lose its traditions. "This vote is against the will of the Kuwaiti people. It aims at changing the identity of the society," said Waleed al-Tabtabai, a parliamentarian strongly opposed to the law. Al-Sabah has indicated that he will appoint women to his cabinet, and Kuwaiti activists are pressing for more reforms to ensure women get a fair deal in parliamentary elections scheduled for 2007. Campaigners fear that conservatives in the parliament could still push through legislation...
...former vice presidential candidate and current Ivy Council head delegate), S. Faraz Munaim ’06 (current UC treasurer), Lauren P.S. Epstein ’07 (current CLC chair), John S. Haddock ’07 (current SAC vice chair), E.E. Keenan ’07 (current UC parliamentarian) and Matthew R. Greenfield ’08 (current UC secretary), among others, were strongly discouraged from running by various means; all have accomplished far more on the UC than Capp. At least one possible opponent of Capp’s received the implied threat that a potential job would...