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Bolivia: Constitution to be voted on
Bolivian President Evo Morales scheduled a national referendum on a hotly disputed new constitution allowing presidential re-election and aiming to empower a long-marginalized indigenous majority. Flanked by dozens of supporters at the presidential...Tags: Referenda, Constitutional Issues, National Government
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Glass ceiling intact
Barack Obama's pick of Joe Biden as his running mate has taken the 18 million holes that Hilary Clinton poked in the glass ceiling of women trying to achieve the highest job in the land and sealed them shut. He is sending out the message that the job of...Tags: Barack Obama, National Government, Joe Biden
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Her Path To The GOP Ticket
1996 to 2002: Two terms as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska 2002: Loses campaign for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor 2006: Upsets then-Gov. Frank Murkowski in the Republican primary, then defeats former two-term Gov. Tony Knowles, a Democrat,...Tags: Alaska, John McCain, Elections, Republican Party, Regional Authority
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Israel: Questions for Olmert
Police questioned Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Friday for a seventh time in connection with one of the multiple corruption investigations that have driven him to announce his resignation. Olmert was questioned for 2 1/2 hours over a house he...Tags: Values, Police Investigations, Corruption, Ehud Olmert, Corporate Crime
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Credibility problems
So Sen. Biden is Sen. Obama's choice to run as his vice president. Well, Biden immediately brings his credibility problems to the Obama campaign. Remember back in 1988, when Sen. Biden was running for president, he used part of a speech from a British...Tags: Elections, National Government, Joe Biden, Political Candidates, Plainfield
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Detective tale meets literary fiction, but is it too timely?
The fall of a presidential election year is rarely a good time to publish fiction. We're in the season of nonfiction titles: White House memoirs, Presidential biographies and partisan tracts. Philip Roth's "The Plot Against America" was a rare exception,...Tags: Labor Day, Stephen Colbert, Folk Music, Bob Dylan, Elections
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A Georgia school system is 'unfit'
The New York TimesA county school system in metropolitan Atlanta has became the nation's first in nearly 40 years to lose its accreditation, and the governor has removed four of its school board members for ethics violations. The school system in Clayton County, just...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Values, Georgia, Ethics, Sonny Perdue
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Thai protesters halt trains, hinder planes
The New York TimesProtesters in Thailand ratcheted up their campaign to oust the government Friday, broadening their occupation to stop trains and block provincial airports. The demonstrators also attacked police headquarters in Bangkok, but the assault failed. Police...Tags: Prosecution, Unions, Demonstration, Coup d'Etat, Police
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La evidente debilidad de Obama
Especial para El SentinelLas luces de la Convención Demócrata no han logrado iluminar el lado opaco del elocuente y astuto Barack Obama: es un hombre débil. Blando. Y su selección de Joe Biden como vicepresidente, en vez de Hillary Clinton, agranda esa deficiencia. Un hombre...Tags: Barack Obama, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Joe Biden, Heads of State
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Contractor says it was underpaid by Florida Power & Light
South Florida Sun-SentinelFlorida Power & Light Co. customers aren't the only ones let down by the utility's alternative-energy program. Green Mountain Energy, the contractor FPL hired to run the Sunshine Energy program, claims the utility underpaid it by $485,166. The Florida...Tags: FPL Group, Florida, Energy Saving, Collective Contract, Florida Power & Light
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Overworking an adjective
A "working party" may sound as contradictory as a wet desert, but Democrats don't care. If there can be such a thing, they want theirs to be it. They are intent on helping, protecting, championing and celebrating all kinds of human beings—as long as...Tags: Edward M. Kennedy, Barack Obama, National Government, Sales, Joe Biden
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Polls over, Zimbabwe lifts ban on aid groups
New York Times News ServiceJOHANNESBURG — Zimbabwe lifted an almost 3-month-old ban on the work of aid groups Friday. The government had imposed the ban because it said some of the groups had been backing the opposition during a bitter election season in which President...Tags: Foreign Aid, Richard Lee, Elections, Robert Mugabe, Heads of State
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