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...“This is the most consequential election Bangladesh is going to have . . . despite the fact that there isn’t an opposition,” said Ali Riaz, a politics professor at Illinois State University....
...“She has decided the path that she wants to go,” says Ali Riaz, a political scientist at Illinois State University. “Her supporters say it’s development, it’s the wellbeing of the people....
...Though she was born in Illinois, Chua’s mother tongue was Hokkien, a southern Chinese language. When she uttered an English word at home her mother would rap her with chopsticks....
...As a Republican mayor in the deeply conservative southern state of Louisiana, Nic Hunter may seem like an unlikely champion for President Joe Biden’s $1.9tn stimulus plan....
...(NYT) US budget wars reach nadir in Illinois The state is set to become the first in decades to go an entire fiscal year without passing a budget....
...“Hope Mitt Romney is listening to Murdoch advice on campaign staff …playing in league with Chicago pols …No room for amateurs”....
...But that’s where the Harlem Little League team plays. And some years back, they made it all the way to the World Series. Just imagine!”...
...They’re coaching little league and helping their neighbours. As one woman wrote me, “We are strained but hopeful, struggling but encouraged.”...
...As White and Goodwin note, he effectively promised the southern states not to force them to ban slavery – they seceded from the Union anyway....
...It was she who made some of the key initial political introductions for her husband in the early 1990s....
...That is the essence of the 2002 Arab League peace plan put forward by King Abdullah – who will be in New York and Washington next week with a top-level Saudi delegation – as well as the “parameters” drawn...
...The city will provide Rahm Emanuel, a congressman and local Northwestern University graduate, as White House chief of staff, David Axelrod, a political strategist and University of Chicago product, as political...
...All Washington lawyers are political. But over the years of Barnett’s rise to influence the meaning of “political” has changed – from blood sport to “just business”....
...The combination of leading business and political names mentioned for the job is not surprising, experts say....
...John Kerry was the winner in Delaware, Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Vermont and Washington DC....
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