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...delivers between 20,000 and 30,000 votes in every major constituency (and many elections have been decided by only a few thousand ballots). Some 80% of LDP candidates who received New Komeito endorsement this time around were elected. In contrast, 55% of LDP candidates without the New Komeito imprimatur won their races. Says Jun Iio, professor of government at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo: "The LDP cannot remain the ruling party without the New Komeito...
...inside Afghanistan, he carried a sufficiently broad international backing to allow him to balance the contending claims of contending Afghan warlords. But achieving the Karzai effect in Iraq would likely require a similar consensus from regional stakeholders including the Arab League, Turkey and Iran, and even possibly a UN imprimatur. An Iraqi leader handpicked by Washington alone may be no more likely to achieve legitimacy among his countrymen than a council of 24 Iraqi leaders handpicked by Washington alone has done...
...open and democratic debate and, as an American institution of higher education, to support our country’s armed forces. Harvard’s antidiscrimination policy may have been made with the best of intentions, but ROTC's presence would not imply Harvard’s official imprimatur, and would hardly intimidate or threaten homosexuals on campus—the symptom the policy seeks to quash...
Harvard, like dozens of other campuses, fell victim to Ms. Adams’ slide show a week ago—given in the ironic location of Quincy Dining Hall—with the gleeful imprimatur of Quincy Co-Master Jayne Loader. To Loader, she is “the most provocative and interesting theorist working in the animal rights field.” That’s one way to put it, but it’s best to let Ms. Adams speak for herself...
Harvard, like dozens of other campuses, fell victim to Ms. Adams’ slide show a week ago—given in the ironic location of Quincy Dining Hall—with the gleeful imprimatur of Quincy Co-Master Jayne Loader. To Loader, she is “the most provocative and interesting theorist working in the animal rights field.” That’s one way to put it, but it’s best to let Ms. Adams speak for herself...