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...Netting more than twice as many votes as any other candidate, Fentrice D. Driskell '01 wins the Undergraduate Council's top spot and her running mate John A. Burton '01 grabs the council's vice presidency. An election referendum also slashes the council to nearly half its current size and defeats efforts to increase student fees that go to the council...
...referendum, the student body took care of the first problem, voting to cut the council's size from roughly 90 down to 50 members...
...referendum's failure was particularly painful to the council because the vote was so close...
Despite these efforts, students voted to bring back the grapes in a College-wide referendum...
...point out his respect for democracy and the EU's lack thereof. His party's finance minister can now also justify the threats of using the American tactic of waiting with the payment of dues to international organizations, and Haider even has a basis for calling for a general referendum whether Austria should remain in the EU or not. Ending the long period of denial in the EU, member states are finally coming to terms with their miscalculation. After the last meeting of all 15 foreign ministers, Austria's foreign minister proudly proclaimed that at least six EU members openly...