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...coming from a parallel reality. On Thursday, the junta announced the barely credible results of its referendum on a new constitution that would extend its hold on the country. The vote had been held in the cyclone's aftermath. More than 92% of voters supposedly said "yes," with a turnout of 99%. The plebiscite was delayed in Rangoon and the delta, but apparently the junta still expects the region's stricken people to vote on May 24. But the true sentiment of the country cannot be masked by propaganda. If you want to gauge the support for Burma's military...
French Prime Minister François Fillon immediately convened a committee of both houses of French parliament to review and reintroduce the legislation for another vote, when whips will presumably insure a full turnout to gain passage. Despite public suspicion of GMOs, that shouldn't prove difficult, since the bill is hardly radical. It obliges farmers to separate natural and GMO cultivation, and sets permitted limits of GMO "contamination" to surrounding plots; requires public disclosure of where GMO crops are located; and make the destruction of GMO crops by protesters - an act for which Bové has been repeatedly arrested...
Barack Obama's challenge How can the campaign maximize turnout among North Carolina's more than 400,000 college students when many schools will be in the midst of exams or finished for the semester at the time of the May 6 primary...
...students don’t just sit around and do problem sets,” she said. “They beatbox and freestyle and dance.” Though the audience actively participated, fellow organizer Brittney R. Lind ’11 said she had expected a larger turnout because of prefrosh weekend. “There weren’t as many red folders as I would have liked,” she said...
...work out a resolution. But if they don't find one before June 29, the matter moves to the credentials committee, which is nearly twice as big and even more political - and over which Howard Dean will hold relatively little power. Imagine that: after a year of record-shattering turnout, the party's nominee could be chosen in a smoke-filled room - in July. If it comes to that, at least one person will be smiling: John McCain...