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• Bloomberg clears hurdle on term-limit law
Bloomberg met for more than an hour with cosmetics heir Ronald Lauder, who largely financed the referendum that created the city's term-limits law in 1993. Officeholders are restricted to two four-year terms; Bloomberg wants to extend that to three ...
• Maldivians flood polls in first free election
The vote was seen as a referendum on the 30-year-rule of President Mamoun Abdul Gayoom, who used a burgeoning tourist trade to turn the islands into an economic success story, but has been accused of cracking down on dissent and allowing cronies to ...
• McGovern: Should've fought 'ridiculous' attacks
It was the “first election of many that was structured as a referendum of meaning on the 1960s.” Perlstein said Nixon was able to pry away two traditionally reliable Democratic constituencies – white ethic voters in northern cities and southern ...
• Can John McCain get his groove back?
In launching a more focused attack on Obama's judgment, he may indeed see his favorable ratings drop, but he's also hoping to bring Obama's down at the same rate. The last couple of weeks have been a referendum on McCain and on the Bush administration
• Crew on hijacked ship off Somalia said to be OK
South Sudan is due to have a referendum on independence in 2011. Many analysts believe the north will be reluctant to let the oil-rich south break away, risking a return to the civil war that has already claimed 2 million lives. Adan Keynan, chairman ...