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...funds remained in University hands, as they do today. Michael G. Colantuono ’83, the first UC chairperson, defended the decision to keep the money in University control in order to ease embezzlement fears and cover auditing costs...
...When the UC was founded 25 years ago, a chairperson presided over Council sessions, and he or she was elected by the vote of the UC representatives. But in May 1995, the UC voted to change to a general election for a president and vice president, in which anyone can run and anyone can vote...
...after today's assassination, the Popular Party seems to have consciously decided to avoid blaming Zapatero's government. "Everyone knows what I think," said Mariano Rajoy. "The guilty ones are the assassins." Gustavo de Arístegui, the PP's chairperson for foreign affairs, concurred: "The only responsible parties are the terrorists themselves," he said, adding, "All democratic Spaniards are enemies of terrorism. There is only one path to crush terrorism, and that is the rule...
...much of the country's environmental legislation. Up until last January, the committee was chaired by Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, a Republican who memorably called global warming "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people." When the Democrats took over Congress in the 2006 midterm elections, however, the chairperson's gavel was handed over to Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, and the floodgates opened. Boxer began a series of open hearings on the science of global warming, giving airtime to the sort of experts - including former Vice President Al Gore - who had been suppressed under Inhofe. "As soon...
...Pakistan People's Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto?s tragic assassination and continued attacks on and kidnapping of army personnel round the year put a big question mark on the efficiency and effectiveness of the security forces against terrorism and to control the law and order situation in the country," wrote the report's authors...