| June 8, 2009 | - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner of Iran's presidential election. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called the election results a “divine miracle,” but fraud and voter irregularities were reportedly rampant; Ahmadinejad's main opponent, Mir Hossein Mousavi, asked the ayatollah for an investigation into the results. “They didn't rig the vote,” said an official with Iran's interior ministry, which conducted the election. “They didn't even look at the vote. They just wrote the name and put the number in front of it.” Iranians protesting the results took to the streets, where they were attacked with clubs, metal batons, baseball bats, stones, and teargas. “He ran a red light,” said Ahmadinejad of Mousavi, “and he got a traffic ticket.” During the campaign, Mousavi advocated increased engagement with the United States and accused Ahmadinejad of being “superstitious” and “brazenly staring at the camera and telling lies to the nation,” citing September 2005 footage in which Ahmadinejad discussed being surrounded by a mysterious light during an appearance at the United Nations: “I felt the atmosphere changed,” he said, claiming that, for 27 minutes, his audience did not blink. “I’m not exaggerating,” he continued, “when I’m saying they didn’t blink.”
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Bloomberg
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New York Times
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CNN
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New York Times
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New York Times
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Times Online
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| November 5, 2008 | -
Barack Obama was elected the 44th president, and first African-American president, of the United States, receiving 365 electoral votes in an election that saw perhaps the highest turnout among registered voters in a century. “If there's anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible,” Obama told supporters, “tonight is your answer.” “The American people have spoken, and they have spoken clearly,” said John McCain in a teary-eyed concession speech. “What an awesome night for you,” President Bush said to Obama. “His choice, basically, is whether he is going to be Uncle Sam... or Uncle Tom,” said Ralph Nader, who received roughly 1 percent of the popular vote.
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New York Times
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New York Times
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Washington Post
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New York Times
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New York Times
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Breitbart
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Dallas Morning News
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Independent Political Report
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| September 25, 2008 | - Senator John McCain announced that fixing the economy was more important than politicking, suspended his campaign, and attempted without success to postpone his first debate with Senator Barack Obama, although he continued to run campaign advertisements, including one that declared him the winner of the debate, and appeared on CBS with Katie Couric. McCain then joined congressional leaders, including Obama, at the White House to discuss the stimulus package. “I didn't see any sign,” said Representative Barney Frank, “of our Republican colleagues paying any attention to him whatsoever.” “All he has done,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of McCain, “is stand in front of the cameras.”
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Washington Post
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Washington Post
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The New York Times
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Politico
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The Los Angeles Times
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| August 21, 2008 | -
Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold) acknowledged that its voting machines, used in 34 states, were programmed with a logic error that loses votes, and that the error has been in place for ten years.
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The Washington Post
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| June 28, 2008 | - Robert Mugabe, ruler of Zimbabwe since 1980, was sworn in as president after he ran unopposed and won more than 85 percent of the popular vote, a percentage roughly equal to the national unemployment rate. He called for “unity” and invited former candidate and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to attend his inauguration. “This,” said a spokesman for Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), “is an unbelievable joke.” Mugabe supporters entered the house of an MDC councillor and shouted “Let's kill the baby” as they shattered the legs of his 11-month-old son, Blessing; a plan was discovered that called for 2 million MDC members to be “internally displaced”; and 3 million Zimbabweans were living in South Africa, where 62 people were killed in recent anti-immigration rioting.
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Times Online
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AFP
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CBS News
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| May 6, 2008 | - The military junta in Myanmar put the official death toll from last week's Cyclone Nargis (Urdu for “daffodil”) at 28,458, while foreign observers, taking into account that heavy rains were expected to continue, with malaria, tuberculosis, cholera, typhoid, and dysentery to follow, expected that as many as 100,000 people would die. Before distributing foreign-aid packages, the junta re-labeled them with the names of its generals; a referendum on a new constitution that will perpetuate the junta's rule was not delayed. “Let's go cast a vote,” sang two female pop vocalists on state-run television. “With sincere thoughts for happy days, let's go cast a vote.”
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Reuters India
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The New York Times
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Irrawaddy
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US State Dept.
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The Christian Science Monitor
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BBC
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The New York Times
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Der Spiegel
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BBC
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Popular Science
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| January 4, 2008 | -
Obama and Mike Huckabee were the surprise winners of the Iowa
caucuses. “None of this worries me,” said Rudy Giuliani, who came in sixth place in the Republican caucus. “September 11, there were times I was worried.”
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NYDailyNews.com
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| October 2, 2007 | -
Burma's junta claimed that peace and stability had been restored following its crackdown on mass pro-democracy protests in which at least 30 people, but likely far more, were killed. Up to 6,000 monks had been arrested, Internet service to the country was almost completely cut off, and the army was paying 20,000 kyat to the families of non-protesters who had been accidentally killed. “Myanmar people,” said a demoralized taxi driver, “have no blood in their veins.”
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VOA
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BBC News
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Bloomberg
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BBC News
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The Age
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| September 27, 2007 | - Both the Magna Carta and pearls that once belonged to Marie Antoinette were being readied for auction.
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New York Times
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Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| January 8, 2007 | -
Senator
Hillary Clinton said that “we want to be able to continue to export democracy, but we want to deliver it in digestible packages.”
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The New Yorker
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| December 1, 2006 | - The National Institute of Standards and Technology concluded that electronic voting machines “cannot be made secure.”
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Washington Post
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| November 7, 2006 | - The Saddam Hussein
genocide trial resumed, even though Hussein was sentenced to death two days before the U.S. election.
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MSNBC
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ABC News Online
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| November 3, 2006 | -
Tennessee G.O.P. officals claimed smart cards were missing from a Memphis polling place.
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WMCTV
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| October 28, 2006 | - Machines used for early voting began to malfunction in Florida,.
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Miami Herald
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| October 20, 2006 | - The mayor of Paris auctioned off City Hall's most expensive wines in favor of serving “little democratic wines.”
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IHT via New York Times
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| October 6, 2006 | - A new group called Scientists and Engineers for America vowed to promote a pro-science
president in 2008.
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New Scientist
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| September 18, 2006 | - In Thailand, General Sonthi Boonyaratglin staged a coup d'etat, dismissing the prime minister and revoking the constitution. “Democracy has won!” said one coup supporter.
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Reuters and the Washington Post
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| September 18, 2006 | - Neo-Nazis won seats in the regional parliament in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany.
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Australia Herald-Sun
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| September 14, 2006 | -
Princeton professor Edward Felten said that he and his students had successfully hacked a Diebold voting machine.
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NBC 6
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| September 5, 2006 | - Actress Lindsay Lohan said she didn't want anyone to know she was in favor of voting. “It's safer that way,” she said.
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BBC
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| July 25, 2006 | - In Maryland one U.S. Senate candidate said he did not knowingly pay for 20 heroin addicts to come to his campaign rally, while another was arrested for raping his 19-year-old mail-order bride.
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Washington Times
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| July 19, 2006 | - President George W. Bush issued his first executive veto, striking down a bill that would have expanded federal research involving embryonic stem cells.
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NY Times
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| July 10, 2006 | -
Poland's president appointed his twin brother to serve as prime minister.
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Bloomberg
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| July 6, 2006 | -
Israel continued its push into Gaza in search of an abducted soldier. “We want to use an iron fist,” said Isaac Herzog, a Labor Party minister, “but cautiously, with a lot of consideration.” Palestinians, who did not cease to fire missiles into Israel, were busy counting their dead.
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International Herald Tribune
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| July 6, 2006 | - Felipe Calderon, the candidate of Mexico's conservative National Action Party, was apparently elected president, though Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the leftist mayor of Mexico City, refused to concede and demanded a complete recount.
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Washington Post
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| June 21, 2006 | - House Republicans declined to renew the 1965 Voting Rights Act because it was unfair to Southerners.
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The New York Times
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| June 13, 2006 | - President George W. Bush visited Iraq because he wanted to “look at Prime Minister Maliki in the eyes.”
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The New York Times
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| April 23, 2006 | - In Iraq, three U.S. soldiers were killed by a bomb and at least 27 Iraqis were killed in other violence. President Bush phoned the newly elected Iraqi prime minister-designate Jawad al-Maliki, parliament speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, and president Jalal Talabani to urge them to form a coalition government. “They have awesome responsibilities,” said the President, “to their people.”
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The New York Times
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News.com.au
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| March 30, 2006 | - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited England but cancelled a visit to a mosque there in order to avoid protesters. Rice and British foreign minister Jack Straw then visited Iraq, where they told the Iraqi leadership that it must form a unified government immediately.
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BBC News
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The New York Times
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| March 26, 2006 | - Both Democrat and Republican strategists agreed that if midterm elections were held now, the Democrats would gain control of the House of Representatives.
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Time
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| March 21, 2006 | - The Supreme Court voted to refuse Puerto Ricans the right to vote in U.S. Presidential elections.
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BBC News
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| March 8, 2006 | -
Tom DeLay (R., Tex.) won the Republican
primary for his congressional seat.
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Capitol Hill Blue
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| February 24, 2006 | -
Philippines President Gloria Arroyo declared emergency rule after an attempted coup by several politicians, military officers, and a former nun.
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Reuters
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| February 23, 2006 | -
Uganda held its first multiparty elections in 25 years. Yoweri Museveni, who has been president since 1986, was re-elected. Riots followed.
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Times Online
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Reuters
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| February 17, 2006 | - U.S. President George W. Bush said that Americans should not be discouraged by slow progress in Iraq. "We've seen democracy change the world in the past," he said.
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BBC News
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| February 14, 2006 | - The United States and Israel were working together to destabilize the Hamas-led government of Palestine. “It's not possible,” countered Hamas spokesman Farhat Asaad, “for the U.S. and the world to turn its back on an elected democracy.”
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The New York Times
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| February 3, 2006 | - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld compared Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to Adolf Hitler because both Chavez and Hitler were elected legally and then "consolidated power." He also pointed out that Chavez has "a lot of oil money."
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MSNBC
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| January 29, 2006 | -
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi promised not to have sex until elections were held on April 9.
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AP via Forbes
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| January 26, 2006 | - The Islamic group Hamas won 76 of 132 parliamentary seats in Palestine's parliamentary elections, unseating the Fatah party. U.S. President George W. Bush, whose administration supported open democratic elections in Palestine, said that the United States would not negotiate with Hamas until the organization renounced its chartered goal of destroying
Israel.
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BBC News
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| January 24, 2006 | - The Conservative Party won a plurality of seats in Canada's federal election, making Stephen Harper Canada's next prime minister.
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CBC.ca
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| January 12, 2006 | - A Minnesota man named Jonathan “The Impaler” Sharkey, who claims to be a vampire, announced that he would run for governor and promised that if elected he would personally impale murderers and child molesters. “I'm a Satanist who doesn't hate Jesus,” he explained.
| Source:
Reuters
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| December 23, 2005 | - A senior member of the International Olympic Committee revealed that London probably only won the right to host the Olympics in 2012 because of a voting error.
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BBC News
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| December 19, 2005 | -
Iraq held parliamentary elections.
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AP
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| December 16, 2005 | -
Iraq's
electoral commission ruled that 99 percent of ballots cast on December 15, 2005, were valid.
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Forbes.com
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| November 10, 2005 | -
California
voters rejected four initiatives proposed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. “If I was to make another Terminator movie,” said Schwarzenegger, “I would tell Terminator to travel back in time to tell Arnold not to have another special election.” Schwarzenegger then visited China, where he was greeted by hundreds of flag-waving children.
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ABC News
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BBC News
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| November 9, 2005 | - Michael Bloomberg was re-elected mayor of New York City for around $68 million, and Jon Corzine was elected governor of New Jersey for around $40 million. When sworn in, Corzine will be America's only bearded governor.
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USA Today
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| November 9, 2005 | - Eight pro-Intelligent-Design members of the Dover Board of Education in Pennsylvania were voted out of office and replaced with pro-evolution candidates. Pat Robertson suggested that God would forsake the people of Dover if disaster struck their town. “If they have future problems in Dover,” said Robertson, “I recommend they call on Charles Darwin. Maybe he can help them.”
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Post-gazette.com
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The Miami Herald
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| November 2, 2005 | - In Ethiopia, 23 people were killed during protests over government vote-rigging.
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Reuters
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| October 16, 2005 | - Sixty percent of Iraq's 15.5 million voters turned out to vote in a referendum on the proposed Iraqi constitution. Three Iraqi soldiers were killed carrying ballot boxes, and five U.S. soldiers were killed by a bomb in Ramadi; the United States retaliated by bombing two villages and claimed that 70 militants had been killed; eyewitnesses said 39 of those killed were civilians.
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BBC News
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The Guardian
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| September 19, 2005 | -
Afghanistan held its first parliamentary elections in over three decades; about 6 million people went to the polls to elect 249 people to the Wolesi Jirga.
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Muslim American Society
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| September 13, 2005 | - The U.S.-funded National Endowment for Democracy gave $100,000 to Sumate, a Venezuelan group that opposes President Hugo Chavez. "If the imperialist government of the White House dares to invade Venezuela," said Chavez during an interview, "the war of a hundred years will be unleashed in South America."
| Source 1:
Democracy Now!
Source 2:
Democracy Now!
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| August 23, 2005 | - President George W. Bush defended his policy in Iraq against the criticism of anti-war protesters like Cindy Sheehan. "Democracy is unfolding," he said. "We cannot tolerate the status quo." Bush, whose 36 percent approval rating is lower than Richard Nixon's during Watergate, spoke in praise of the war while visiting Donnelly, Idaho, which has a population of 130, as 200 anti-war protesters rallied outside. Bush also promoted his plan for a prescription drug benefit for Medicare while visiting a golf resort in El Mirage, Arizona.
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Democracy Now!
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CNN
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The Guardian
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| June 2, 2005 | - The Maldives decided to become a democracy.
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BBC News
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| May 3, 2005 | - Faure Gnassingbe, the son of the former president of Togo, was named president of Togo. Eighteen thousand five hundred people have fled Togo as a result of election violence.
| Source:
Reuters
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| April 27, 2005 | - A state representative in Alabama put forward a bill that would prohibit school libraries from purchasing books by gay authors. The measure died when not enough state legislators showed up to vote.
| Source:
CBS Evening News
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| April 25, 2005 | -
Elections were held in Togo, followed by street battles and at least three deaths.
| Source:
Street battles follow Togo poll
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| April 23, 2005 | - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who belonged to the Hitler Youth before he became a priest, won the papacy by a landslide and styled himself Benedict XVI. The new pope dislikes homosexuality (he moved quickly to condemn a Spanish bill that would permit gays to marry), abortion, and the death penalty, but he loves little kittens. In 2001, he ordered Catholic bishops to hide allegations against pedophile priests from the public.
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BBC News
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New York Daily News
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The Observer
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| April 18, 2005 | - Six died when an election rally in Togo turned violent.
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BBC News
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| April 5, 2005 | -
Tony Blair called a general election for May 5, 2005.
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BBC News
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| April 1, 2005 | -
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's party won a two-thirds majority in a rigged election.
| Source:
Guardian
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| March 31, 2005 | - The United States announced that it will establish nine new military bases in Afghanistan, bringing the total to twelve; Afghanistan announced that it will once again postpone parliamentary elections.
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Aljazeera.com
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| March 24, 2005 | -
Jimmy Carter and James Baker were picked to lead a bipartisan commission on American electoral reform. Carter vowed to “make Americans proud again.”
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Boston.com
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| February 18, 2005 | -
Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe promised to hold elections within sixty days; Gnassingbe took control of the presidency after the former president, his father, died in office.
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BBC News
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| February 14, 2005 | -
Iraq's
election results were announced. Several parties gained seats in the newly created Iraqi parliament, including the United Iraqi Alliance, the Kurdistan Alliance, the Iraqi List, “Iraqis,” the Turkmen Iraqi Front, National Independent Elites and Cadres Party, the Communist Party, the Islamic Kurdish Society, the Islamic Labor Movement in Iraq, the National Democratic Alliance, National Rafidain List, and the Reconciliation and Liberation Entity.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| February 3, 2005 | - The Association of Sunni Scholars declared the vote illegitimate,
| Source:
The New York Times
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| February 1, 2005 | - The King of Nepal said he was a proponent of multiparty democracy, then fired the government, sent troops to the house of the Prime Minister, and assumed direct ruling authority.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| January 31, 2005 | - Approximately eight million people turned out to vote in Iraq. International monitors gave the election their seal of approval, though all 129 of them stayed inside Baghdad's Green Zone.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| January 28, 2005 | -
Fake polling stations were set up with snipers positioned to guard the real ones, which were revealed 24 hours before opening. Many of the candidates kept their identities secret until election day, though two had made it known they were direct descendants of the Prophet Mohammed.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| January 25, 2005 | - Prominent Sunni leaders who boycotted the election said they would be happy to help the elected National Assembly draft the new constitution.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| January 21, 2005 | -
Protesters threw snowballs.
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New York Daily News
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| January 18, 2005 | - Car bombers, suicide attackers, and kidnappers in Iraq were exceptionally busy, killing dozens to protest the country's impending election,
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 7, 2005 | - Congress officially ratified President Bush's election victory after a two-hour debate about voting irregularities in Ohio.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| January 6, 2005 | - Nearly 25 percent of Iraq will not be secure for the election, according to one U.S. military commander, who still insisted the poll date should not be changed. "I think there is a greater chance of civil war with a delay than without one," he said.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| December 31, 2004 | - In Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf announced that he would hold on to his dual post as president and army chief, reneging on his promise to relinquish authority over the country's military by the end of 2004. "The spirit of democracy has been restored in the country," he said.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 24, 2004 | - A third poll showed that three-quarters of Iraqis intend to vote in upcoming elections; 41 percent incorrectly believe that they are voting for an Iraqi president.
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Omaha.com
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| December 15, 2004 | - The election season began in Iraq with 73 parties participating,
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Reuters
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| December 15, 2004 | - Congressman John Conyers Jr. said he would ask the FBI to investigate "inappropriate and likely illegal election tampering" in Ohio during the presidential election,
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 13, 2004 | - Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan's first elected president.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 8, 2004 | - Colin Powell and Russian leaders squabbled about each other's interest in monitoring the upcoming Ukrainian election.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 5, 2004 | - A report filed with the Federal Election Commission last week revealed that Kerry did not spend $14 million of his campaign funds, money he kept in reserve in case legal challenges or recounts became necessary.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 3, 2004 | -
Ukraine's Supreme Court ordered a second presidential run-off to be held by December 26 after it ruled last month's fraud-plagued election invalid.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 3, 2004 | - At a Moscow airport Vladimir Putin told Ukraine's outgoing president that new run-off elections were unnecessary.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 3, 2004 | -
Russia blocked all exports from a breakaway region of Georgia because it did not support the candidate whom the region elected.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 2, 2004 | - Supporters of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, the winner in the November 21 run-off, threatened to form a separate nation in the country's east.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 2, 2004 | - A French court reduced a political ban on former Prime Minister Alain Juppé for illegal party financing from ten years to one, making him eligible to succeed Jacques Chirac in the 2007 presidential election.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 2, 2004 | -
Colombia's congress voted to overturn a rule that restricts presidents from running for reelection, allowing Alvaro Uribe, an ally of George W. Bush, to run again in 2006.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 1, 2004 | - Jesse Jackson and candidates from the Green and Libertarian parties, citing numerous voting irregularities in Ohio, demanded a recount in the state, whose voting results John Kerry conceded on the morning of November 3.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| November 22, 2004 | - The mayor of Riyadh announced that no foreign observers would be welcome in Saudi Arabia's municipal elections, nor would women be able to participate as voters, or candidates.
| Source:
Arab News
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| November 22, 2004 | -
Ukraine elected Viktor Yanukovich as its president, although observers said the election failed to meet international standards.
| Source:
Reuters
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| November 6, 2004 | - It was noted that anomalous voting patterns in Florida (where a disproportionate number of Democrats apparently voted for George W. Bush) were all confined to counties where optical-scanning machines are used to read paper ballots. Such votes are tabulated by Windows-based PCs that are vulnerable to tampering.
| Source:
Truthout
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| November 4, 2004 | -
Election software in Onslow County, North Carolina, miscounted the votes for county commissioners.
| Source:
Jacksonville Daily News
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| November 4, 2004 | - Journalists were still trying to figure out why exit polls -- which projected that John Kerry would win in Florida, Ohio, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, and Iowa -- turned out to be completely wrong. "Exit polls are almost never wrong," wrote Dick Morris. "Exit polls cannot be as wrong across the board as they were on election night. I suspect foul play."
| Source:
The Hill
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| November 3, 2004 | - Senator John Kerry was narrowly defeated by President George W. Bush in an election that was marred by irregularities and unanswered questions about the integrity of electronic voting machines.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| November 1, 2004 | -
Voter suppression campaigns were reportedly underway all around the country, though all indications were pointing to an historically high turnout.
| Source:
Talking Points Memo
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| October 30, 2004 | -
Wisconsin Republicans were trying to challenge about 37,000 voter registrations in Milwaukee.
| Source:
Journal Sentinel
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| October 29, 2004 | - In South Carolina a letter purporting to be from the NAACP claimed that voters will be arrested at the polls if they have outstanding parking tickets or child support payments and said that voters must provide a credit report, two forms of photo ID, a Social Security card, a voter registration card, and a handwriting sample.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| October 29, 2004 | -
Broward County's election supervisor said that up to 15,000 absentee ballots would be resent to voters whose ballots mysteriously disappeared.
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 28, 2004 | - A new study found that Iraqis are 58 times more likely to die a violent death than before the American invasion; the study concluded that 100,000 Iraqis have died as a result of the invasion, and that coalition air strikes, which mostly kill women and children, were the primary cause of civilian deaths.
| Source:
BBC
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| October 24, 2004 | - Counterterrorism officials were still having a hard time finding specific evidence to support Tom Ridge's claim in July that Al Qaeda is planning to disrupt the November election.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| October 18, 2004 | - Absentee ballots missing the names of John Kerry and John Edwards were mailed to Ohio voters.
| Source:
Cincinnati Post
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| October 15, 2004 | - Officials in Oregon and Nevada were investigating claims that Republicans destroyed Democratic voter-registration forms.
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 11, 2004 | - A senator from Kentucky apologized for saying that his Democratic opponent looks like one of Saddam Hussein's sons.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| October 11, 2004 | - A senate candidate in Oklahoma warned of "rampant" lesbianism in the schools.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| October 10, 2004 | - Opposition politicians complained that the Afghan presidential election was fraudulent.
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 8, 2004 | -
Republicans in Michigan were calling on authorities to prosecute Michael Moore for offering to give clean underwear to college students if they would promise to vote.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| October 4, 2004 | -
Election officials across the country were reporting record numbers of new registrations, and Republican state officials in Ohio and Florida were doing their best to invalidate them on technicalities.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 27, 2004 | - The United States military was planning a large new offensive in Iraq to prepare for the scheduled January elections.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| September 23, 2004 | - Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld admitted that the ongoing war could result in a "limited" election. "Well, so be it," he said. "Nothing's perfect in life, so you have an election that's not quite perfect."
| Source:
Reuters
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| September 22, 2004 | - More flaws were found in Diebold Election Systems' electronic voting machines.
| Source:
Wired News
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| September 19, 2004 | - The president said that the country is on a path to a democratic future. Some Republicans were worried about the contradiction between the president's optimistic comments and what is actually happening on the ground. Senator Chuck Hagel observed that "we are in deep trouble in Iraq."
| Source:
Voice of America
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| September 19, 2004 | - President Vladimir Putin of Russia responded to the recent terror attacks there by announcing plans for a radical restructuring of the Russian political system that would end the popular election of regional governors and district representatives in parliament.
| Source:
Lexington Herald-Leader
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| September 16, 2004 | - The British House of Commons voted to outlaw fox hunting with dogs after pro-hunting protesters broke into the chamber and insulted the rural affairs minister.
| Source:
Telegraph
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| September 3, 2004 | - About half a million people protested the Republican National Convention in New York City; the protests were said to be the largest ever at a U.S. political convention.
| Source:
USA Today
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| August 30, 2004 | - People in Chechnya apparently elected Vladimir Putin's choice for president, though there was widespread evidence of fraud.
| Source:
Guardian
|
| August 29, 2004 | - Hundreds of thousands of people marched in New York City to denounce George W. Bush and his policies, particularly the war in Iraq.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| August 21, 2004 | - An audit by international observers confirmed that Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez fairly won the referendum on his rule.
| Source:
Reuters
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| July 14, 2004 | -
Condoleezza Rice said that there was no plan to cancel the November presidential elections.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| July 11, 2004 | - Federal authorities in the United States were discussing the possibility of postponing the November elections in the event of a terrorist attack.
| Source:
CNN
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| July 9, 2004 | - President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan was planning to delay parliamentary elections once again.
| Source:
New York Times
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| July 8, 2004 | - Tom Ridge, the secretary of homeland security, warned that Al Qaeda might be planning an attack to disrupt the November elections, but he said that he was aware of no specific threat or details about the alleged plan. The color-coded threat level remained unchanged, and many observers suspected the announcement was made to distract attention from Senator John Kerry and his new running mate, Senator John Edwards, whom President Bush accused of being too inexperienced.
| Source:
Associated Press, Nelson Report
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| July 7, 2004 | -
Iyad Allawi, the prime minister of Iraq's new puppet government, signed a law giving him the power to declare martial law and ban seditious groups. Allawi hinted recently that national elections, which are scheduled for January 2005, might be delayed.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| July 4, 2004 | - Outgoing proconsul L. Paul Bremer warned that Iraq's path to democracy would be messy, and noted, "It wasn't very pretty around here either between 1776 and 1787."
| Source:
Salon
|
| July 2, 2004 | - Nine members of the House of Representatives asked the United Nations to monitor the November elections, and
| Source:
Agence France Presse
|
| June 25, 2004 | - A poll showed that most Americans now think the invasion of Iraq was a mistake that has made the country more vulnerable to terrorism.
| Source:
USA Today
|
| June 17, 2004 | - Moktada al-Sadr told his fighters to disarm and go home and said that he planned to enter Iraqi politics.
| Source:
Agence France-Presse
|
| June 11, 2004 | - The Shiite militia loyal to Moktada al-Sadr, who reportedly plans to establish a political party, took over a police station in Najaf.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| May 25, 2004 | - The governor of Georgia declared a state of emergency in six counties because of the "potential danger" posed by demonstrators at the Group of 8 meeting.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| May 19, 2004 | -
German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder was slapped in the face at a campaign rally.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| May 19, 2004 | - Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain was pelted in the back with condoms filled with purple flour as he was speaking in front of Parliament during a question-and-answer session.
| Source:
BBC
|
| May 14, 2004 | - Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee of India resigned after his Hindu nationalist party lost in parliamentary elections; the Indian National Congress party, led by Sonia Gandhi, won a plurality and was expected to form a coalition government. Gandhi was expected to become the first foreign-born Indian premier.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| May 8, 2004 | - The prime minister of Nepal resigned after weeks of violent street protests against the king.
| Source:
New York Times
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| April 26, 2004 | -
China announced that Hong Kong will not be allowed to elect its next leader in 2007, contrary to the city's Basic Law, which was enacted when Britain turned over the territory in 1997; China's Standing Committee of the National People's Congress said that an election would create social and economic instability. Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong's current chief executive, called on the people to remain "calm and rational."
| Source:
BBC
|
| April 23, 2004 | - The Bush Administration continued to insist that sovereignty will be turned over to an Iraqi government on June 30 but revealed for the first time that the sovereign will be unable to make new laws or command the armed forces.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| April 23, 2004 | -
Diebold Election Systems was in trouble again for using insecure software in its voting machines in California.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| April 22, 2004 | - The House of Representatives approved a bill providing for quick elections if 100 or more members are killed at one time.
| Source:
CBS News
|
| April 20, 2004 | - Bob Woodward's new book continued to shape the news; it was the source of accusations that the Bush Administration improperly diverted funds to prepare for the conquest of Iraq, and that Saudi Arabia promised President Bush to deliver low fuel prices to help with his reelection.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| April 16, 2004 | - The Federal Election Commission was debating whether to regulate the political speech of many nonprofit organizations.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| April 14, 2004 | - Officials in Northern Ireland apparently refused to let a woman with Down's syndrome register to vote because of a rule barring "idiots and lunatics" from voting.
| Source:
Scotsman
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| April 11, 2004 | - Police in Taiwan used water cannons on protesters.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| April 9, 2004 | -
Nepal banned public protests in Katmandu.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| April 5, 2004 | -
Taiwan's opposition asked the country's High Court to overturn the March 20 presidential election; the losing candidate, Lien Chan, has accused President Chen Shui-bian of election fraud and of staging his own shooting the day before the vote.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| April 3, 2004 | -
Russia's parliament agreed to amend a bill that would have banned almost all public demonstrations.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| April 2, 2004 | - Fifty thousand protesters filled the streets of Katmandu, Nepal, demanding a restoration of democracy.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| March 31, 2004 | - Attacks on occupation forces were averaging about 26 per day, and Bell Pottinger, the British PR firm, was hired to teach Iraqis about democracy.
| Source:
International Herald Tribune
|
| March 30, 2004 | -
Bush Administration officials were said to be disturbed that Caribbean countries have refused to recognize the U.S.-backed government in Haiti.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| March 27, 2004 | - The Caribbean Community refused to recognize the new U.S.-backed government in Haiti because of questions about the circumstances under which Jean-Bertrand Aristide left office; the 15-nation group called for the United Nations to investigate Aristide's charges that he was abducted by the United States and forced to leave Haiti.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| March 23, 2004 | - Millions of protesters filled streets around the world to mark the first anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| March 21, 2004 | - The president and vice president of Taiwan were both shot and wounded the day before elections; the opposition called for a recount and accused the president of staging his own shooting to win sympathy votes.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| March 19, 2004 | -
Pennsylvania lawmakers were considering a bill that would reward state contractors for using American workers.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| March 14, 2004 | - A videotape emerged in which Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the March 11 bombings in Madrid. "This is an answer to your cooperation with the Bush criminals and their allies," the tape said. Three days later, Spanish voters, who overwhelmingly opposed their government's support of the Iraq war, turned out the ruling Popular Party in favor of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party, which pledged to bring Spanish troops home from Iraq.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| March 14, 2004 | - President Vladimir Putin of Russia was reelected.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| March 8, 2004 | - Aristide called for a restoration of democracy and for peaceful resistance against the foreign occupiers.
| Source:
Guardian
|
| March 8, 2004 | - The Iraqi Governing Council signed an interim constitution; Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani denounced the new constitution and again called for direct elections.
| Source:
Bloomberg
|
| March 7, 2004 | -
President Bush was criticized for exploiting
September 11 in his new campaign advertisements.
| Source:
Los Angeles Times, Newsweek
|
| March 6, 2004 | - Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was named as the new executive editor of Muscle and Fitness and Flex magazines, said it was fine with him if voters want to change the law to permit gay
marriage.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| March 4, 2004 | - State Department officials claimed that the U.S. had simply declined to protect Haiti's
democratically elected president from the advancing rebel mob.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| March 4, 2004 | - Senator John Kerry eliminated his remaining competition for the Democratic presidential nomination.
| Source:
Guardian
|
| March 3, 2004 | - Venezuela's National Electoral Council declared that Chávez opponents had failed to gather enough valid signatures to trigger a recall election.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| March 3, 2004 | -
French lawmakers passed a ban on Islamic headscarves.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| March 2, 2004 | - Former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide accused the United States of overthrowing him in a coup. "I was forced to leave," he said. "Agents were telling me that if I don't leave they would start shooting and killing in a matter of time."
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| March 2, 2004 | - Violent protests continued in Venezuela.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| February 26, 2004 | - The British government declined to prosecute Katharine Gun, the linguist who leaked a United States National Security Agency memo asking British intelligence to spy on United Nations diplomats before the invasion of Iraq; there was speculation that the government was trying to avoid another embarrassing debate about the legality of the war.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| February 26, 2004 | -
China accused Hong Kong's leading opposition party of being unpatriotic.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| February 24, 2004 | -
Utah's legislature voted to do away with the firing squad.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| February 23, 2004 | -
Ralph Nader announced that he will run for president as an independent.
| Source:
MSNBC
|
| February 19, 2004 | - More than 60 prominent scientists, including 20 Nobel prize winners and 19 winners of the National Medal of Science, denounced the Bush Administration for its systematic distortion of scientific facts for political gain; John H. Marburger III, the administration's head of science and technology policy, dismissed the report and said that it was politically motivated.
| Source:
Chemical and Environmental News
|
| February 19, 2004 | - The Taliban was handing out fliers in Afghanistan warning people that they will be killed if they register to vote.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| February 19, 2004 | -
Howard Dean ended his presidential candidacy.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| February 13, 2004 | - A new poll found that most Americans believe that President Bush lied or knowingly exaggerated evidence that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. The poll also showed Senator John Kerry beating the president by nine percentage points.
| Source:
Washington Post
|
| February 12, 2004 | -
Florida's state department decreed that touch-screen votes need not be included in manual recounts of elections.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| February 4, 2004 | - Senator John Kerry continued to win primaries.
| Source:
Washington Post
|
| February 2, 2004 | - One hundred twenty-four members of Iran's
parliament resigned to protest the disqualification of more than 2,000 moderate candidates by the conservative Guardian Council.
| Source:
Guardian
|
| February 1, 2004 | - Reporters continued to notice sartorial oddities among the Democratic presidential candidates.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| January 28, 2004 | -
U.N. secretary general Kofi Annan sent a team to Iraq to see whether it was safe enough to hold elections.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| January 28, 2004 | - John Kerry won the New Hampshire
primary.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| January 28, 2004 | - A judge ruled that Arnold Schwarzenegger broke campaign-finance laws during the recent election.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| January 22, 2004 | - An expert panel that was asked to review a Pentagon-funded Internet voting system declared that the system was fundamentally flawed. "Using a voting system based on the Internet," said one of the experts, "poses a serious and unacceptable risk for election fraud." The Pentagon nonetheless said that it "stands by" the program, which will be used in several primaries this year. "We feel it's right on," said a spokesman, "and we're going to use it."
| Source:
New York Times
|
| January 22, 2004 | - Howard Dean decided to tone down his campaign persona after the media became alarmed at his "nutty" Iowa concession speech.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| January 20, 2004 | - More than 100,000 Iraqis filled the streets of Baghdad in a march supporting the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in his demand for direct elections.
| Source:
Seattle Times
|
| January 20, 2004 | - President George W. Bush made his State of the Union address just one day after the Iowa caucuses and appealed to voters to reelect him so that he could continue to wage war on terror.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| January 20, 2004 | - Senator John Kerry won the Iowa caucuses.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| January 19, 2004 | - The Bush Administration, worried that it might not be able to hand over Iraqi sovereignty before the U.S. presidential election, decided to ask the United Nations for help.
| Source:
Globe and Mail
|
| January 17, 2004 | -
L. Paul Bremer, the American proconsul of Iraq, said he was willing to compromise with the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani (who has declared that only direct elections will legitimize a new government) but said any changes would be very limited, and that direct elections would not be considered.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| January 16, 2004 | - Five military lawyers who represent detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, filed a brief with the Supreme Court arguing that President Bush has exceeded his constitutional authority in setting up military tribunals for their clients and the other detainees. "Under this monarchical regime," they wrote, "those who fall into the black hole may not contest the jurisdiction, competency or even the constitutionality of the military tribunals."
| Source:
New York Times
|
| January 16, 2004 | - One hundred seventy-five members of the British
parliament, including five former law lords, also filed a brief attacking the administration's detainment policy. "The exercise of executive power without the possibility of judicial review," they wrote, "jeopardizes the keystone of our existence as nations, namely the rule of law."
| Source:
New York Times
|
| January 14, 2004 | -
Italy's constitutional court struck down a law that gave Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi immunity from prosecution, a ruling that will revive the corruption charges the law was written to nullify.
| Source:
Washington Post
|
| January 13, 2004 | - The Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal challenging the government's post-September 11 policy of secretly seizing and imprisoning Muslim men.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| January 9, 2004 | - General Wesley Clark was wearing argyle sweaters at campaign appearances in an attempt to appeal to women voters. The retired general told a reporter that some women have "an impression that the armed forces is a male-dominated, hierarchical, authoritarian institution."
| Source:
New York Times
|
| January 8, 2004 | -
German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder was chased from a building in Leipzig by a mob of student demonstrators chanting "First education, then games!"
| Source:
BBC
|
| January 8, 2004 | -
Britain released plans for new emergency powers that will permit government authorities to ban public gatherings and to destroy or confiscate private property without compensation.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| January 6, 2004 | - Mikhail Saakashvili was elected president of Georgia in a huge landslide; early projections showed him winning 96.7 percent of the vote.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| January 5, 2004 | -
Afghanistan's loya jirga approved a new constitution; the country will be known henceforth as the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and no law will be made contrary to Islamic belief. "There is rain coming," said Sebaghatullah Mojadeddi, the council chairman, "and flowers are coming from my body."
| Source:
New York Times
|
| January 2, 2004 | -
God told Pat Robertson that George W. Bush would be reelected.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| December 29, 2003 | - an Israeli soldier shot a peaceful, unarmed protester. A national controversy erupted when it turned out that the protester was Jewish.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| December 20, 2003 | - It was reported that the omnibus spending bill passed by the House of Representatives this month includes $23 billion in "earmarks" such as $50 million for an indoor rain forest in Iowa and $225,000 to repair a swimming pool in Sparks, Nevada. Jim Gibbons, a Republican representative, explained that the funding came about because he felt guilty for clogging up that pool with tadpoles when he was a boy. "Look," Gibbons said in defense of his earmark, "this is the standard practice the United States Congress has had for decades." Gibbons said he did not view such projects "as pork."
| Source:
New York Times
|
| December 11, 2003 | - The United States Supreme Court upheld the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law, which bans unlimited political contributions to political parties. The majority concluded that "it was not unwarranted for Congress to conclude that the selling of access gives rise to the appearance of corruption."
| Source:
New York Times
|
| December 6, 2003 | - The National Rifle Association was looking to buy a TV or radio station so that it can say what it likes about political candidates without having to abide by campaign-finance laws.
| Source:
USA Today
|
| November 29, 2003 | -
Congress approved a major Medicare bill that permits the elderly to buy prescription drug coverage; few citizens were able to understand the plan, though the health-care industry appeared to be well pleased by it. The legislation was endorsed by AARP, which nowadays makes a great deal of money selling health-care products to its members, and consumer advocates denounced it as "a classic election-year giveaway." Some experts predicted a revolt among the elderly once the plan takes effect in 2006 and the true costs of reform become clear.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| November 21, 2003 | - President George W. Bush traveled to Great Britain, along with 650 companions, including five personal chefs, but was unable to move freely in the country because of massive protests. At Buckingham Palace the president dined on roasted halibut with herbs, free-range chicken, potatoes cocotte, salad, and a sorbet bombe but presumably skipped the Puligny-Montrachet and the Veuve Clicquot, Gold Label, 1995. Truck bombs blew up the British Consulate and a British bank in Istanbul, killing at least 27 and wounding hundreds. Bloody victims ran screaming through the streets. Two hotels in Baghdad used by Westerners were bombed as was the headquarters of a pro-American Kurdish group in Kirkuk.
| Source:
New York Times, Daily Telegraph
|
| November 21, 2003 | - Ten thousand people demonstrated in Miami against a meeting of trade officials who hope to set up a free-trade area among 34 countries in the Western Hemisphere.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| November 21, 2003 | - Senate Democrats and moderate Republicans used a fillibuster to block a $30 billion energy bill that would have given immunity from lawsuits to petrochemical companies that have polluted water supplies with MTBE, a carcinogenic fuel additive.
| Source:
Forbes
|
| November 19, 2003 | - The House of Representatives voted to ban keeping lions, tigers, and other "big cats" as pets.
| Source:
Agence France-Presse
|
| November 18, 2003 | - Judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan heard arguments over the indefinite detention of Jose Padilla, an American citizen who was arrested in Chicago last year and declared an "enemy combatant." A government lawyer said that "Al Qaeda made the battlefield the United States"; an opposing lawyer said that "the president seeks an unchecked power to substitute military power for the rule of law"; Judge Rosemary Pooler observed that "as terrible as 9/11 was, it didn't repeal the Constitution."
| Source:
New York Times
|
| November 12, 2003 | - Wesley Clark came out in favor of a constitutional amendment banning flag desecration.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| November 8, 2003 | - Howard Dean decided to pull out of the public campaign-financing system to avoid spending limits.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| November 7, 2003 | - President George W. Bush gave a speech before the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, D.C., and asked Iran, Syria, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia to please try to be more democratic. The president alluded to the fact that the United States has for sixty years supported dictatorships in the Middle East but said that, "in the long run, stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty."
| Source:
New York Times
|
| October 31, 2003 | - Congressional negotiators stripped a measure criminalizing war profiteering from the final version of the $87 billion spending bill for Iraq.
| Source:
U.S. Newswire, Office of Sen. Patrick Leahy
|
| October 30, 2003 | - Members of the House Ways and Means Committee decided to give tax relief to manufacturers of bows and arrows; makers of fishing tackle boxes were also expected to see relief, as were liquor and wine distributors and movie studios.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| October 18, 2003 | - The president of Bolivia resigned in the face of massive antiglobalization protests.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| October 17, 2003 | - Soldiers in Azerbaijan were photographed beating the supporters of opposition politicians after they protested the rigged election of President Heydar Aliyev's son.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| October 17, 2003 | - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld defended Lt. Gen. William Boykin, the deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence and war-fighting support, who was videotaped making a number of impolite comments about Islam. Boykin was also videotaped propounding a new theory of American electoral politics: "Why is this man [George W. Bush] in the White House?" he asked in a speech. "The majority of Americans didn't vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning that he's in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this."
| Source:
New York Times
|
| October 9, 2003 | -
Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California and told his son that being governor will be a lot like making a movie.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| October 7, 2003 | -
Russia's man in Chechnya won an overwhelming victory in the presidential election.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| October 2, 2003 | - Newly released files suggested that the Mexican government used at least 360 snipers in a massacre of protesters on October 2, 1968.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 22, 2003 | - L.
Paul Bremer, the American overseer of Iraq, said that Iraqis were not quite ready for self-rule.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| September 17, 2003 | - The Senate passed a resolution of disapproval condemning the Federal Communication Commission's new rules giving more freedom to media monopolies.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 17, 2003 | -
Voters in Seattle rejected a proposed 10-cent tax on espresso.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| September 15, 2003 | - Sweden voted overwhelmingly against joining Europe's common currency.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 10, 2003 | - Pentagon officials testified before a congressional hearing that the military was having a hard time in Iraq.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 4, 2003 | -
North Koreans danced in the streets holding bunches of flowers to celebrate the reelection of Kim Jong Il as chairman of the National Defense Commission, his primary office; Kim Il Sung, who has been dead for almost ten years, is still officially the head of state.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 2, 2003 | - Seattle was considering a tax on espresso.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| August 31, 2003 | - Burma's new prime minister, General Khin Nyunt, unveiled a new "road map to democracy."
| Source:
New York Times
|
| August 31, 2003 | - Dr.
Howard Dean gave a stewardess a foot exam on a chartered jet during a campaign trip.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| August 26, 2003 | -
Condoleezza Rice, the president's national security adviser, compared the Iraqi guerrillas to the Nazi Werewolves who resisted the Allies after World War II; Rice pleaded for patience and suggested that building democracy in Iraq might take a very, very long time.
"Our own history should remind us that the union of democratic principle and practice is always a work in progress.
When the Founding Fathers said, 'We the People,' they did not mean me.
My ancestors were considered three-fifths of a person."
| Source:
New York Times
|
| August 26, 2003 | - Eleven Democratic state senators from Texas were still on the run in New Mexico.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| August 8, 2003 | - Democratic lawmakers from Texas were still on the run in New Mexico.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| August 6, 2003 | - A mob attacked a brothel in Basra and smashed cases of beer in the street.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| August 1, 2003 | - Israel's parliament passed a law forbidding Palestinians who marry Israelis from becoming Israeli citizens.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| July 31, 2003 | -
Guatemala's former dictator was readying a run for president.
| Source:
Agence France-Presse
|
| July 29, 2003 | - The Democratic Leadership Council warned that "the Democratic Party is in danger of being taken over by the far left."
| Source:
New York Times
|
| July 29, 2003 | - Democratic state legislators in Texas once again fled the state over Republican plans to redraw congressional districts.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| July 25, 2003 | - A federal judge in Colorado sentenced three nuns to two and a half years in prison for damaging a nuclear-missile silo during an antiwar protest.
| Source:
AP
|
| July 23, 2003 | - The Los Angeles Times refused to allow a Secret Service agent to interrogate a cartoonist who had depicted a figure labeled "politics" pointing a gun at President Bush against a background labeled "Iraq."
| Source:
AP
|
| July 17, 2003 | - Defense contractor Lockheed Martin filed suit against antiwar demonstrators for $41,000 in security costs the company incurred preparing for a protest.
| Source:
Veteransforcommonsense.org
|
| June 30, 2003 | - Howard Dean, a Democratic presidential candidate, announced that he had raised almost $9 million, an achievement that shocked his opponents, and it was noted that he was now a serious candidate.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| June 21, 2003 | - Massachusetts repealed its "clean elections" law.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| June 11, 2003 | - Frank Luntz, the Republican pollster, said that it doesn't matter whether WMD are found, "because the rationale for the war changed. Americans like a good picture. And one photograph of an Iraqi
child kissing a U.S. soldier is more powerful than two months of debate on the floor of Congress."
| Source:
Washington Post
|
| May 30, 2003 | - President Bush was made an honorary Yale Whiffenpoof.
"We are poor little lambs who have lost our way," he said.
"Baa, baa, baa."
| Source:
New York Times
|
| May 29, 2003 | - A lawmaker in Nebraska proposed declaring war on Iowa.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| January 21, 2003 | -
Venezuelan soldiers raided a Coca-Cola plant that has been closed because of the ongoing general strike. “We are distributing this product to the population because collective rights come above individual rights,” said General Luis Felipe Acosta Carles, who then took a swig of warm soda and burped into a television camera.
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| February 19, 2002 | -
The House of Representatives passed a ban on soft money.
| |
| December 25, 2001 | -
India recalled its ambassador to Pakistan and threatened to go to war if Pakistan did not stop sponsoring terrorist groups such as Jaish-e-Muhammad, which attacked India's parliament building last week.
| |
| December 18, 2001 | - President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe opened his reelection campaign and took his main opponent into custody.
| |
| November 27, 2001 | -
Germany's
Green Party, rejecting one of its defining principles, voted to go along with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's decision to send troops to Afghanistan.
| |
| November 20, 2001 | - A newspaper review of the ballots cast in Florida's presidential election found that Al Gore probably received more votes than George W. Bush, who this week signed an executive order that will permit the government to use military courts to try foreigners accused of terrorism.
| |
| November 20, 2001 | - Members of the Liguria parliament in Genoa, Italy, banned the use of the word “member” to describe one another because it also means “penis,” which “is likely to cause a certain uneasiness among women”; henceforth, members will be known as “components” of parliament.
| |
| November 20, 2001 | -
Schoolchildren in India
voted overwhelmingly to name a white tiger cub in the Lucknow Zoo Osama bin Laden; Hitler was another popular choice.
| |
| November 13, 2001 | -
Alabama's board of education
voted to put a sticker with a disclaimer on biology textbooks stating that “evolution is a controversial theory.”
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| November 13, 2001 | -
Israeli legislators voted to lift parliamentary immunity from an Israeli Arab legislator so that he could be prosecuted for advocating Palestinian resistance to Israeli policies.
| |
| October 30, 2001 | - Senator Russell Feingold cast the only dissenting vote in the Senate; he argued that the bill's language was too vague and would allow unconstitutional searches.
| |
| October 30, 2001 | - Secretary of State Colin Powell appointed Charlotte Beers, an advertising executive best known for the Head and Shoulders campaign, to be undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs; Beers said her job would be the rebranding of America: “It's the battle for the 11-year-old mind.” Bush Administration officials met with television executives to discuss effective propaganda strategy.
| |
| October 2, 2001 | - A professor at the University of New Mexico was in big trouble for joking that “anyone who can blow up the Pentagon gets my vote”; university officials were calling for his resignation.
| |
| September 11, 2001 | -
Bush Administration officials contradicted previous statements that they would let China build up its nuclear arsenal if Beijing would simply drop its objections to the missile-defense boondoggle. Russia was beginning to approach the subject with a certain irony. “If they have the money to build the most excessive response to the least probable threat situation, that's okay,” said Vladimir Lukin, deputy speaker of parliament.
| |
| September 11, 2001 | - The European Parliament heard testimony that Echelon, America's rumored spy network, can monitor any telecommunication that bounces off a satellite.
| |
| September 4, 2001 | - Democratic fat cats and fund-raisers were turning up their noses at Al Gore's recent attempts to “reach out” and beg for cash; many said they were focusing on winning the next presidential election with a viable candidate.
| |
| August 7, 2001 | - The United States House of Representatives voted to ban human cloning for both reproduction and medical research; the measure also prohibits the sale of treatments derived from such procedures.
| |
| August 7, 2001 | - Chris Morris, a British comic, tricked several politicians and celebrities into saying absurd things on television about the Internet and pedophilia. “Using an area of the Internet the size of Ireland,” a Labour member of parliament said, “pedophiles can make your keyboard release toxic vapors that can make you more suggestible.”
| |
| July 31, 2001 | - The House voted to reject Bush's recommendations for increased arsenic in drinking water, returning instead to levels established under President Clinton.
| |
| July 24, 2001 | - Three days earlier, British prime minister Tony Blair declared that people have been “far too apologetic” toward demonstrators who disrupt gatherings of world leaders, noting that “if the public knew their views, they'd disagree with them.” Hundreds of thousands of semi-naked youths were gyrating in the streets of Berlin during its eleventh annual Love Parade.
| |
| July 24, 2001 | - A study by computer scientists, mechanical engineers, and social scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute of Technology found that four million to six million votes cast last November were not counted.
| |
| July 3, 2001 | - President Abdurrahman Wahid of Indonesia said he would declare a state of emergency and use the military to prevent parliament from removing him from office; the military suggested that it would do no such thing.
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| June 19, 2001 | - Mohammad Khatami was reelected president of Iran with 78 percent of the vote.
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| June 12, 2001 | - The United States Commission on Civil Rights released its report on the Florida
election, concluding that blacks were widely disenfranchised by the actions of state officials and calling for an investigation by the Justice Department.
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| June 5, 2001 | -
Indonesia continued to disintegrate; parliament voted 365-4 to begin hearings to impeach President Abdurrahman Wadid a few days after the attorney general absolved him of corruption charges; great mobs of his supporters ran amok.
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| June 5, 2001 | - Alejandro Toledo was elected president of Peru; 13 percent of the voters cast blank ballots, possibly to protest rumors that Toledo once used cocaine in an orgy with five hookers.
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| June 5, 2001 | -
France's
parliament passed a law that permits the government to ban religious groups that it considers “sects,” but backed away from plans to outlaw “mental manipulation.”
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| May 29, 2001 | - Senator James M. Jeffords of Vermont defected from the Republican Party, handing control of the Senate to the Democrats, who promptly voted to confirm Theodore B. Olson as solicitor general, suggesting that the White House cabal had little to fear after all.
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| May 29, 2001 | - Vice President Dick Cheney was in trouble for using his official residence to raise campaign funds.
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| May 22, 2001 | -
Russia's
parliament voted to give President Putin more power.
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| May 15, 2001 | - The U.S. House of Representatives voted to withhold $244 million in United Nations dues if American did not regain its seat on the Human Rights Commission. “This is an affront,” sputtered Dick Armey, the House majority leader, “more to the whole notion of international human rights than it is to us as a nation.”
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| May 8, 2001 | -
Indonesia's
parliament voted to censure President Abdurrahman Wahid for corruption and incompetence.
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| May 8, 2001 | -
Florida decided to reform its election system.
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| May 1, 2001 | - Missouri's House of Representatives passed a bill making it a crime for a politician to lie in a campaign advertisement.
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| April 24, 2001 | - Dr. Tshabalala-Msimang, South Africa's health minister, was asked what the government planned to do next, having won this important victory; she replied that actually there was no real need to use such drugs in a country with the highest rate of AIDS infection on earth.
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| April 24, 2001 | - Residents of Mississippi
voted 2 to 1 to keep their rebel flag.
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| April 3, 2001 | -
Maryland's House of Delegates voted to impose a two-year moratorium on executions.
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| April 3, 2001 | - The Senate passed a campaign-finance reform bill that banned soft money.
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| March 27, 2001 | - Denouncing Mexico's close-minded “caveman politicians,” Zapatista rebel leader Subcommander Marcos went home to the jungle after failing to reach a settlement with congress over Indian rights.
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| March 27, 2001 | - A new member of the hominid family was christened “flat-faced man of Kenya.” Arkansas legislators were debating whether to ban the teaching of evolution and radio-carbon dating techniques; a proposed bill would require teachers to tell students to mark “false evidence” or “theory” in their books next to discussions of evolution.
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| March 27, 2001 | -
Violence continued in Borneo.
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| March 20, 2001 | -
Iranian president Mohammad Khatami called for more democracy and freedom; within hours, Iranian security forces arrested forty pro-democracy activists.
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| March 20, 2001 | -
Democrats, who lately have been raising record amounts of soft money, were worried that campaign-finance reform might actually pass this year.
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| February 27, 2001 | - American newspapers and other content providers were still ignoring growing evidence, reported in the British press, of George W. Bush's electoral coup, including new evidence that thousands of black Floridians were improperly removed from the list of approved voters.
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| February 27, 2001 | - Federal authorities in New York were investigating whether the pardon of four Hasidic Jews convicted of fraud was granted in exchange for votes.
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| February 27, 2001 | - Twenty-nine people were killed in post-election violence in Yemen; opposition parties called for new elections because of widespread irregularities.
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| February 27, 2001 | - Ehud Barak, the Israeli prime minister who lost the recent election to Ariel Sharon, a known war criminal, resigned from politics, then agreed to be Sharon's defense minister in a government of national unity, then resigned from politics again.
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| February 20, 2001 | - The European Parliament approved strict rules on genetically modified organisms.
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| February 20, 2001 | - The Kansas state board of education
voted to restore the teaching of evolution in the public schools.
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| February 13, 2001 | -
Ariel Sharon, a known war criminal, was elected prime minister of Israel; Sharon declared that the peace process was dead and that the Palestinians must submit to Israeli domination before negotiations could resume.
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| February 13, 2001 | -
Jean-Bertrand Aristide was inaugurated as president of Haiti; the opposition, which believes the election was rigged, formed an alternative government.
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| February 6, 2001 | - The Democratic Party demonstrated its seriousness of purpose by failing to mount a filibuster to block the confirmation of former senator John Ashcroft, who was defeated by a dead man in the last election; Ashcroft was sworn in as Attorney General by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in a private ceremony.
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| February 6, 2001 | -
French fascist Jean-Marie Le Pen resumed his seat in the European Parliament; Le Pen lost his seat in October after he was convicted of assaulting Annette Peulvast-Bergeal, a socialist politician.
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| February 6, 2001 | - Mehmet Fevzi Sihanlioglu, a fifty-five-year-old Turkish legislator, died of a heart attack after he was struck and threatened with a knife during an attempt to break up a fight between two other members of parliament.
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| January 30, 2001 | -
Thailand's
election commission ordered revotes in 62 districts because of widespread cheating, though it confirmed the overall victory of the Thai Love Thai party, whose leader, the new prime minister, is under investigation for corruption.
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| January 30, 2001 | -
Florida's 67 county election supervisors called for uniform voting standards.
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| January 23, 2001 | - Former senator John Ashcroft, who was defeated by a dead man in the last election, promised in his confirmation hearings to enforce the law, even laws with which he—as a right-wing, Christian, pro-life nut—disagreed.
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| January 23, 2001 | -
Great Britain's
House of Commons
voted to outlaw fox hunting; one prominent fox hunter was heard to say: “I will break Blair's
law.
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| January 16, 2001 | -
Mississippi's House of Representatives voted to hold a referendum on whether to remove the symbol of the Confederacy from its flag.
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| January 16, 2001 | -
Turkey announced that it had killed 23,000 separatist Kurds in the last 15 years and threatened to get even with France if its parliament passed a bill recognizing the Turkish genocide of Armenians. The U.S. Congress almost passed a similar bill last year.
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| January 2, 2001 | - A Mexican court annulled a state election because of evidence of widespread fraud.
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| January 2, 2001 | - The League of Women Voters said that it was closing its New York office because of financial difficulties.
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| December 26, 2000 | -
Jerusalem's
Christian churches endorsed Palestinian demands for sovereignty in East Jerusalem; they condemned Israeli violence against demonstrators and noted that an oppressed people living under a military occupation has the moral right to resist its overlords.
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| December 26, 2000 | - Serb voters gave a coalition of liberals allied with Yugoslav president Vojislav Kostunica a majority in parliament, thus completing their repudiation of former dictator Slobodan Milosevic and his Socialist party.
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| December 26, 2000 | - Secret Service agents arrested a man in Atlanta who said he was going to “take down” George W. Bush for stealing the election.
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| December 26, 2000 | -
George W. Bush named former senator John Ashcroft to be attorney general; Ashcroft is best known for his extreme conservatism and for being unable in the last election to defeat a dead man.
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| December 19, 2000 | - With his brother safely appointed president, Governor Jeb Bush announced that he would appoint a panel to reform Florida's
election equipment and procedures.
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| December 12, 2000 | -
Israeli
snipers shot and killed more unarmed Palestinian
demonstrators.
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| December 12, 2000 | - Power was changing hands in Ghana for the first time in 19 years; only four people were killed in election violence.
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| December 12, 2000 | - Ivoirian Muslims and Christians were killing one another again in the aftermath of a disputed election.
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| December 12, 2000 | - The United States Commission on Civil Rights
voted to open a “systematic investigation” of voting irregularities in Florida.
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| December 12, 2000 | - The Supreme Court of Florida ordered that 45,000 “undercounted” ballots, ballots for which vote-counting machines had not registered a vote for president, be manually recounted.
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| December 5, 2000 | -
Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, his government about to fall, called for an early election.
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| December 5, 2000 | - Romanians were concerned that a young anti-Semite might defeat an old Communist in a runoff election for president.
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| December 5, 2000 | - An investigation of Florida ballots found that at least 445 felons voted illegally in the presidential election, mostly in Palm Beach and Duval counties; many were registered Democrats, including 7 kidnappers, 16 rapists, 45 killers, 56 drug dealers, and 62 robbers.
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| December 5, 2000 | -
Russia's lower house of parliament voted to give former presidents immunity from prosecution for acts committed while in office.
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| December 5, 2000 | -
Tony Blair's
parliament invoked emergency powers and enacted a law making it legal for sixteen-year-old boys to engage in homosexual acts with middle-aged members of parliament; the House of Lords had thrice rejected the legislation.
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| November 28, 2000 | -
Jean-Bertrand Aristide (promising “Peace in the Head. Peace in the Belly.”) was reelected president of Haiti in an election boycotted by major opposition parties, who said it was rigged.
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| November 28, 2000 | - The United States
election continued in Florida: “Pregnancy doesn't count in chads in Palm Beach,” one lawyer told a Palm Beach judge. “Only penetration counts in Palm Beach.”
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| November 21, 2000 | - New Jersey Republicans accused Democrats of providing crazy people in mental hospitals with absentee ballots; it was suggested that the crazy vote may have decided a close congressional race.
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| November 21, 2000 | -
Republicans accused Democratic vote counters in Florida of eating chads they had secretly and illegally punched for Al Gore.
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| November 21, 2000 | - President Askar Akayev was sued by eight Kyrgyzstan lawmakers who claimed that his election to a third term in office was illegal.
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| November 21, 2000 | - Five people died in election violence in Egypt.
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| November 14, 2000 | - The U.N. General Assembly for the ninth time called on the United States to lift its embargo of Cuba; the vote was 167-3; only the Marshall Islands and Israel voted with the U.S.
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| November 14, 2000 | -
Police shot protesters in Mozambique, killing ten, after an election the opposition said was rigged.
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| November 14, 2000 | -
Ralph Nader prevented Al Gore from winning a clear victory in the U.S. presidential election. Although Gore won a popular majority nationwide, the Electoral College outcome awaited a decision in the contested Florida vote, where widespread “irregularities” occurred; most commentators were pleased to believe that the irregularities were the result of mere incompetence and stupidity in the state governed by Jeb Bush.
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| November 14, 2000 | - Thousands of Chinese
voted in a mock U.S. election in Beijing; Al Gore won by a 2 to 1 margin.
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| November 14, 2000 | -
Venezuela's
parliament gave President Hugo Chávez the power to rule by decree.
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| November 14, 2000 | -
California
voters approved a measure requiring drug offenders to be sentenced to treatment rather than prison.
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| November 14, 2000 | -
Germany's lower house of parliament passed a limited gay-marriage bill.
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| November 14, 2000 | - A dead man was elected to the United States Senate.
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| November 7, 2000 | -
Police in Zanzibar, Tanzania, opened fire on unarmed demonstrators who were protesting rigged elections.
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| October 31, 2000 | - Leonard Downey, Jr., the executive editor of the Washington Post, reminded readers that in his tireless quest for objectivity, he does not vote, nor does he allow himself “to decide, even privately, which candidate would make the better president or member of the city council, or what position I would take on any issue.” San Francisco relaxed stringent graduation requirements after it was learned that thirty percent of the senior class would not graduate.
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| October 31, 2000 | - Hillary Rodham Clinton got spooked by accusations that she was not sufficiently loyal to Israel and returned $50,000 in campaign contributions to some Arabs.
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| October 31, 2000 | - The House of Representatives voted to establish retirement homes for chimpanzees who have been the subject of medical experiments.
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| October 10, 2000 | -
Turkey's
parliament considered loosening restrictions on free speech as well as the summary dismissal of thousands of Islamic civil servants; General Huseyin Kivrikoglu, who fancies himself to be the guardian of the secular Turkish state, suggested the purge.
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| October 10, 2000 | -
Slobodan Milosevic abdicated after police joined massive demonstrations that successfully overran government buildings; a four-year-old boy who broke away from his father was the first to ascend the steps of the parliament building in Belgrade; later, adult protesters urinated on the floor of the parliament's main chamber.
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| October 10, 2000 | - Former Russian president Boris Yeltsin published a memoir in which he admitted to drinking too much and to having planned in 1996 the abolition of Russian democracy.
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| September 26, 2000 | -
Clinton administration officials denied that contributors to Hillary Clinton's
Senate
campaign were given special invitations to sleep over at the White House; the Clinton campaign said that only about 1/4 of recent guests had given money.
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| September 26, 2000 | - Vice President Al Gore and Senator Joseph Lieberman reassured Hollywood campaign contributors that they did not intend to censor entertainment products despite their claims to the contrary last week.
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| September 26, 2000 | - The U.S. Senate
voted to lift restrictions on trade with China.
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| September 26, 2000 | - Alec Baldwin, the actor, said he would emigrate if George W.Bush were elected president.
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| September 19, 2000 | - The Palestinian Central Council voted to postpone its declaration of an independent state; in Gaza, members of the Gaza Accountants Association fought with police after several accountants were arrested for firing their weapons in the air.
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| September 12, 2000 | - In a Spanish article posted to Voter.com, Texas
Republican representative Henry Bonilla said that Governor George W. Bush was “extending the monkey” to Hispanic voters.
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| September 5, 2000 | -
President Clinton went to Colombia and met with President Andres Pastrana, who three years ago was unable to visit the United States because he had accepted a campaign contribution from Cali drug traffickers; the two men discussed “Plan Colombia,” a $7.5 billion plan to fight drug trafficking, of which $1.3 billion will be provided by America.
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| September 5, 2000 | - Mastercard International, Inc. sued Ralph Nader's presidential campaign, claiming that Nader's television ad parodying Mastercard's “priceless” advertising campaign was a copyright infringement.
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| September 5, 2000 | - Vice-presidential candidate Dick Cheney said he would forfeit $3.5 million in stock options if he were elected; he also released tax forms showing that his income increased from $258,394 in 1992 to $4,423,289 last year.
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| August 29, 2000 | - Against the advice of senior Justice Department aides, Attorney General Janet Reno once again decided not to appoint an independent counsel to investigate Vice President Al Gore's 1996 fund-raising activities.
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| August 29, 2000 | -
China was engaged in a $7 million American public relations campaign; the traveling exhibits and displays were partially paid for by corporations that do business in China.
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| August 29, 2000 | - Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy leader, was stuck in her car on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, after the vehicle was blocked by two government trucks as she attempted to leave the city; in a previous such standoff, Aung San Suu Kyi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, remained in her car for thirteen days.
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| August 15, 2000 | - Journalists marveled at the vice-presidential candidate's command of the Yiddish language; the word “chutzpah” appeared daily in campaign dispatches.
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| August 8, 2000 | - The United States Immigration and Naturalization Service naturalized 180,000 immigrants without performing proper background checks, according to a Justice Department report; the report failed to support the Republican charge that the Clinton administration rushed the approvals in hopes of acquiring additional Democratic voters in the 1996 election.
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| August 8, 2000 | -
Voters in the Kansas Republican primary selected pro-evolution candidates for the state school board, ensuring thereby that the state's current science standards, which for the last three years have required the teaching of creationism in the schools, will be overturned.
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| August 1, 2000 | - President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela was reelected in what he called a “mega-election”; Chavez vowed to complete his peaceful social revolution against Venezuela's “rancid oligarchy” by “liquidating our adversaries from the field of battle.” Classes resumed in Myanmar, almost four years after SLORC, the country's military junta, banned higher education.
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| August 1, 2000 | - Reform Party leaders voted to remove right-wing columnist Pat Buchanan from the presidential ballot; Buchanan said the vote was “of no consequence.” George W. Bush killed an attempt to make the Republican primary more democratic using what he called “an iron fist rule” to keep divisive politics off the stage at the Republican National Convention.
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| August 1, 2000 | - The House of Representatives voted unanimously to ban the execution of pregnant women in response to remarks by Vice President Al Gore that a “the principle of a woman's right to choose governs in that case.” British Columbia asked the Canadian supreme court to affirm the validity of gay marriage.
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| August 1, 2000 | - Speaker of the House Dennis J. Hastert took several members of the Republican party's “Regents,” some 100 campaign contributors who have given $250,000 apiece to the party since January 1999, on a fishing trip.
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| July 25, 2000 | - A bill that would have banned Internet gambling failed to achieve the required two thirds majority in the House of Representatives, thus assuring continued campaign contributions from the Internet gambling lobby.
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| July 25, 2000 | - Hippies were said to be massing in the Californian desert in preparation for the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles; Mayor Richard Riordan promised to use rubber bullets if they tried any nonviolent civil disobedience.
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| July 25, 2000 | - The Russian
Parliament voted to give President Putin more power.
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