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...wrong side of history. Two decades ago, the last of Princeton’s eating clubs discontinued its practice of gender discrimination after a protracted legal battle that included two failed appeals to the Supreme Court. The next year, Skull and Bones, Yale’s famous secret society, voted to accept women following a contentious public fight that pitted renowned grads like John F. Kerry and William F. Buckley, Jr. against one another. But somehow, the winds of change that blew up the coast from New Jersey to New Haven never made it all the way to Cambridge...
Palin gave a speech which encouraged the people to criticize—and eventually vote against—the current administration of “change we can believe...
...voting ended on Thursday in Sudan's first multiparty general election in 24 years, voters could be forgiven for feeling disappointed. The national vote, say opposition parties and some observers, was rigged, and it will likely cement the presidency of a man who has been indicted for war crimes. Still, the entire exercise was backed by the international community. Asked by a reporter last week whether the U.S. was "ready to sign off on the results no matter how flawed the actual process in this election" was, U.S. State Department spokesman Philip Crowley answered, "What is the alternative...
...half-century of civil war between Sudan's north and south. Those numbers may have persuaded the international community to subordinate democracy to the cause of peace, but a slew of opposition groups withdrew from the presidential election ahead of the poll - citing repression and the expectation of vote-rigging - leaving no serious challengers to the incumbent, President Omar Hassan al-Bashir. In the upside-down world of Sudanese politics, it was the party that fought hardest for democracy that pulled the plug on the country's moment of "democratic transformation": the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), which...
...facing foreign observer teams to "monitoring a Hitler election." Amid such criticism, the U.S. special envoy to Sudan, Major General Scott Gration, headed to Sudan to try to salvage the sinking electoral ship but ended up only enraging al-Bashir's northern opposition by expressing his confidence that the vote would be as "free and fair as possible." John Ashworth, a veteran of 27 years in Sudan now working for the IKV Pax Christi aid group, says the world should have known better. "Nobody (except ignorant foreigners) ever expected the elections to be free and fair," he wrote...