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...heat wave that caused 15,000 deaths last August, and gaffe-prone Ecology and Sustainable Development Minister Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin is also ripe for sacking. All of which may be too little, too late. While the ump repeatedly urged voters not to confuse regional campaigning with a referendum on reform, 42% of first-round voters said their ballots were cast in anger at the government. That hurt ump candidates with close governmental ties and earned Raffarin a personal rebuke: voters in his conservative-controlled home region of Poitou-Charentes massively backed a leftist list - headed...
...council is considering a measure to increase the optional $35 student activities fee on the term bill to a mandatory $100 fee, provided a student referendum on this issue passes. But our experiences with council funding, plus a few simple math calculations, have led us to believe that ultimately organizations like our magazine would be better off asking their members to waive the student activities fee and let the students donate that money to the main organizations they are devoted to, and that are in need. At this point, it seems to us that the wisdom of the individual will...
...cynical attempts to game the system, did little to allay popular misgivings about the health of the democracy. Recall that, after barely eight months in office, a frustrated and tactically outclassed Roh toyed with pulling a coup d'?tat against himself by demanding an extra-constitutional referendum to back his policies and threatening to resign from the presidency if the vote didn't turn out to his liking...
Chen has added fuel to this tinderbox by including a referendum with the election. He is asking voters to sanction a military buildup in response to China's deployment of missiles across the Taiwanese Strait. He has also said that if he wins, he will revise Taiwan's constitution, a step that Beijing fears could move Taiwan closer to formal independence. That is why Washington, seeking to cultivate relations with China, has taken a dim view of Chen's initiatives. President Bush warned him in December not to "make decisions unilaterally to change the status quo," implying that he should...
...from the proposal’s backers that the hike will likely be covered by Harvard’s Financial Aid Office. The fee hike would not be a negligible burden for the office—more like on the order of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Before the referendum goes up for a vote, the council must do the necessary leg-work to get a guarantee that students who cannot afford this increase will not be forced...