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...campus referendum that slashed the council from 90 to 50 seats last year was intended to foster a more competitive environment...
...house. Other ruins line the lane like broken teeth, reminders of what happened last time the East Timorese went to the polls. When a huge majority voted two years ago for independence from Indonesia, pro-Jakarta militiamen repaid them with a frenzy of destruction across the country. On referendum day, militia members whispered threats through frightened voting queues. "There were spies behind our backs," says Sister Carmelita Martins, who lives in the coastal village of Maubara, west of Dili. "We ran home after we had voted...
...trying to recover from the riots that broke out last April after an unarmed African-American man named Timothy Thomas was shot and killed by a white police officer. Now Luken, who is white, is trying to fend off Fuller, an African American, who sees the race as a referendum on Luken's handling of the unrest. (Cincinnati, pop. 331,000, is 43% black...
...Fiscally speaking, a few billion here or there was no big deal. But for Bush politically, his first budget was going to be a referendum on his election - and like the election, it was so close that every last dollar needed to add up right...
...government by the ubiquitous warlords, Somaliland has forged a more peaceful path. It has created its own government, and issued currency and passports. Not that a Somaliland passport will get you anywhere - although a declaration of independence from Somalia was supported by 90 percent of voters in a recent referendum, no other country recognizes the move. The Somalilanders maintain they were always separate from, and different to, their southern cousins. Moreover, they insist they'll never reunite with the southern Somalis, or at least not before they get their house in order. In the mean time, the Somaliland government struggles...