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...Elections for Taiwan's 225-member legislature used to pivot on localized concerns, like whether a county had enough roads. But this Saturday's ballot is proving to be a referendum on the big issues: Taiwan's relationship with China, and Chen's presidency. His narrow re-election in March-just one day after an apparent assassination attempt-left him without a clear mandate and spawned weeks of street protests by the KMT-led opposition. That stretched into acrimonious months of ballot recounts and lawsuits challenging both the vote tally and the circumstances of the shooting incident. Though the courts...
...public by initially blaming ETA for those bombings and maintained that it could have played a role in the attacks, later linked to al-Qaeda. Green Light FRANCE By a margin of nearly 3-to-2, Socialist Party members voted "yes" to the new E.U. Constitution in a party referendum ahead of a national vote next year. Both the left and right have now lined up in favor of the treaty, making French approval likely and boosting its chances Europe-wide. All 25 E.U. nations must endorse the text...
...Undergraduate Council is poised to vote this Sunday on an important ballot initiative that may help to significantly reduce the amount of greenhouse gases Harvard produces. If the proposal is passed, the council will place a referendum on next week’s presidential ballot which would ask students two questions: first, whether they support placing a $10 renewable energy fee on termbills and second, whether the charge should be “opt-in,” “opt-out,” or mandatory. We emphatically urge the council to pass the legislation, and we hope...
...Harvard institutions, the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) and the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), buy electricity from renewable sources. The KSG held a successful student referendum last year to require a $10 yearly clean energy fee from its students to cover all electricity costs; the HSPH meets half of its electricity needs with renewable energy purchased by the administration...
Proponents of the proposed referendum are pleased that their cause is drawing the College’s attention...