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...beleaguered government of Serbia, weakened by infighting and allegations of corruption, dissolved its parliament and called elections for December, a year early. The third attempt in just over a year to elect a new President was set to be held on Sunday. Previous polls failed due to low voter turnout. Meet the New Boss MIDDLE EAST Yasser Arafat swore in a new Palestinian cabinet, headed by PM Ahmed Qurie. The new lineup seemed weaker than that of Qurie's predecessor, Mahmoud Abbas, who resigned in September after Arafat undermined his attempts to curb Islamic terrorists. Qurie lost his struggle with...
Still others said the low turnout for Moseley Braun might reflect that students are beginning to suffer from “Hardball” fatigue...
Though they initially hoped for at least 700 people to show up (Europa’s capacity is 757, according to Morris) they were still proud of the turnout...
Still, this year’s student turnout was a vast improvement from past elections...
...Turnout was up this year—20,080 ballots were cast compared with 17,688 two years ago—a trend widely attributed to both DeBergalis’ voting registration drive on campuses and to the fact that voters came out to weigh in on a controversial ballot question on rent control...