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...later election will benefit their cause. They expect the British economy to stutter, damaging Labour's reputation and, more especially, Brown's - he was Chancellor of the Exchequer for 10 years before becoming Prime Minister, after all. They also want months rather than weeks to woo electors with vote-winning policies such as their planned changes to the inheritance tax, which would raise the threshold to 1 million pounds from the current level of 300,000 pounds. At their annual conference in Blackpool, which concluded on Oct. 4 with a bravura speech by Conservative leader David Cameron, party strategists played...
...UC’s constitution, ratified by a vote of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1982, states that “the Council shall receive term-bill income for its own operations, for grants to undergraduate organizations, and to stimulate social life. The Council shall have final control over this income...
Petersen said yesterday that he believes the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, with its 1982 vote, remains “the sole authority that could affect Undergraduate Council funding,” and he has said that Pilbeam overstepped his authority as an official of the College by ending the party grant system...
...that a long rumored power-sharing deal between Musharraf and Bhutto, the self-exiled two-time Prime Minister who fled Pakistan in 1999 under still-unanswered charges of corruption, is still on. Indeed, Musharraf was not opposed by Bhutto's powerful Pakistan People's Party (PPP) during Saturday's vote: the PPP simply abstained from voting. With other opposition parties boycotting, that meant that Musharraf received all but two or three of the votes cast, lending legitimacy to his election. In the meantime, Bhutto will get blanket amnesty for corruption charges leveled against her and her husband, Asif Zadari...
...turnout could help Jindal by giving his social conservative base a bigger share of the vote. But anti-incumbent sentiment could cost him: He began the race with a lead that made him seem like the incumbent right out of the gate. There's still time for one of the candidates to land a deadly blow or a bombshell to land; more likely, in a race that seems cautious by Louisiana standards, any surprises will come from the voters themselves...