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...Commons, a supposedly above-the-fray symbol of Parliament's reputation. The scandal has exposed what anyone who has spent time in the House of Commons knows well; that many of its members are has-beens and never-will-bes, self-important rhetoricians inebriated (as one truly great parliamentarian said of another) with the exuberance of their own verbosity...
...number of Council representatives per district—Houses for upperclassmen and clusters of dormitories for freshmen—from two to three. “The Council will be doing more because we’ll have a third rep per district,” said UC Parliamentarian Eric N. Hysen ’11, a main proponent of the Act. The Act also increases the number of standing committees within the Council from two—the Finance Committee and the Student Affairs Committee—to five. The Finance Committee will still exist, but some responsibilities will...
...Sunni parliamentarian Salim al-Jubouri took Muqtada al-Sadr's recent appearance in Turkey as a good sign. Sadr surfaced in Ankara ostensibly to discuss the situation in Iraq with top Turkish leaders, including President President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Turkey is a predominantly Sunni country, many observers noted, and maybe the militant Shi'ite warlord was making a show of nascent sectarian reconciliation. "The attitude is good," says al-Jubouri, a member of the Sunni political bloc known in Arabic as Tawafiq. "But so far it's all talk, we need to see actions...
...taking everything I have not to walk out of this meeting right now,” said UC Parliamentarian Eric N. Hysen ’11 during the debate on the UC Reform Act of 2009 which followed the vote on social spaces. Flores left the meeting to “get some air,” leaving Sarafa and later UC Secretary Doug Lloyd ’09 to oversee the remaining business on the agenda. [SEE CLARIFICATION BELOW...
...Likha al-Yasheen, a female parliamentarian aligned with Sadr said, "A decision like that is only in the hands of Sadr...