Word: voting
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...student body, none of us are experts on university governance. Nor are we qualified to judge the character or ability of the many distinguished scholars and administrators that will be considered for the post. Therefore, it is the height of arrogance to claim for ourselves the same voice and vote as experts who have devoted most of their lives to university governance...
...film star and fitness diva Jane Fonda leading a troop of Soviet women on an athletic loop around the Kremlin. Yet as loudspeakers blared "Hoorah, hoorah!" for Fonda outside the old czarist citadel, inside no outright cheers greeted Gorbachev's shape-up course. Legislators adopted the program by a vote of 333 to 12 (with 34 abstentions) but remained unsure as to exactly what the plan would accomplish. Still, the scheme's preamble sets a clear objective. While making a token half-nod to Marx -- "The transition to the market does not contradict the socialist choice of our people...
...fight when a crowd of Chicago retirees mobbed the car of Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. To avoid being mobbed in the same way on Election Day, Congress has declined to inflict much pain on its older constituents. As for children -- they don't vote...
...state of Rio Grande do Sul was hurt by allegations from his former wife that he had deserted their three children. And in the state of Amazonas, gubernatorial candidate Gilberto Mestrinho was attacked by his opponents for having nine children by four women. But the snickering slogan "Vote for Mestrinho -- he could be your father" backfired: Mestrinho won by a landslide...
...Havel's moderation suffered a setback last week when Klaus easily defeated the President's candidate to become the new chairman of the Civic Forum alliance. Although aides admitted the vote was a blow to the President, Havel's response was statesmanlike. He invited Klaus for a beer and called in the press to photograph them drinking happily together...