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Bobby's dream fades away
Kathleen Babineaux Blanco created history
here by becoming the first woman to win the race for Governor of
Louisiana after she defeated her Indo-American Republican rival Piyush
´Bobby’ Jindal by a margin of 54,567 votes.
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Philippines: Democracy only in letters
As in the case of Jose Pidal and Chief
Justice Hilario Davide a political grudge is being pursued with the
veneer of legality - that is, under the pretence of being the legitimate
work of a democratic institution.
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Two-party system in Japan: Will it succeed?
Proportional representation (PR) systems, on
the other hand, favour multi-party systems and coalition governments.
Ironically, until 1994 Japan too had a multi-seat constituency PR system
that the LDP managed to dominate completely through skilful use of
divide-and-rule tactics and other means of dubious legality.
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Good
show by Indo-Americans in US local polls
Indian American Kamala Harris advanced to a
run-off that would determine who will become San Francisco’s district
attorney, surprising everyone by knocking out former city prosecutor
Bill Fazio, who narrowly lost the race two previous times.
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Shevardnadze quits, Burdzhanadze is new Georgian President
Beleaguered Georgian President Eduard
Shevardnadze was finally forced to resign after meeting the opposition
and Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov.
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Istanbul blasts: The enemy within
In Bali and Casablanca, it was
initially thought that al-Qaeda had carried out the blasts, but it
turned out that they were carried out by local elements sympathetic to
al-Qaeda for local reasons.
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