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But we shouldn't be too surprised. Dictatorships only last if they have significant support from the populace. In another TV poll a few years ago, in Portugal, former dictator Salazar was voted the greatest Portuguese person ever. And in Hungary, the Communist dictator Janos Kadar (architect of "goulash communism") was voted greatest Hungarian of the 20th century.
"Our Board Presidents are also in discussion and we will now arrange for them to meet soon after the BCCI AGM. It is key for all of us to make sure that the good relationship between our respective Boards is maintained and, in fact, strengthened and that we also honour the proud history between our two countries," he said.
Here the problem. We a nation more into style than substance. The 1st debate between President Barack Obama and former Governor Mitt Romney had the makings of a conversation about in what direction the nation really needs to move. However, unless you had already devoted much time to knowing the issues and the candidates promises, it was difficult, as it usually is, to know not only the truth but also the effect of different paths of tax and spending policies. Each candidate did express different paths, but did we learn anything about which is the better way? We learned what we sometimes do, that one candidate was more convincing and politically profited from the moment.
It follows similar resignations earlier this year by 27 military officials, many of whom are now government ministers, which allows them to contest the polls under a party believed to be backed by the armed forces. 7 polls will be the first in the former Burma since 1990, when the party of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi swept to victory but was denied the chance to rule. The result was ignored by the regime and annulled in March this year.
It's true that Obama's father lived most of his life in Kenya, an African nation once colonized by the British, and that Obama's reverence for his absent father frames his bestselling memoir. D'Souza even sees clues in the book's title: "Notice it says 'Dreams From My Father,' not 'of' my father," D'Souza says.
Families in Texas have cause for historic celebration today. Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act provides new validation to a century long movement to provide affordable access to decent health care for all Americans. The Affordable Care Act is by no means perfect, but it is a good faith, compromise effort to address an explosion in health care costs that threatened to place basic health care needs out of the reach of ordinary workers. In Texas, the law has helped young workers struggling to find their place in our economy and retirees who might otherwise not be able to afford preventive care. It has improved or saved the lives of more than 4,000 Texans who otherwise would have run afoul of condition clauses preventing them from obtaining insurance. The political spin off today ruling is doing justice to whirling dervishes, but we prefer to focus on the historic nature of the Supreme Court decision. The individual mandate is a bipartisan idea, first proposed by Republicans. Democratic and Republican presidents starting with Teddy Roosevelt have attacked the problem of lack of access to health care. Legal experts will dissect the path to this decision for years to come. There can be no doubt that for millions of Texans, today decision opens a new era and marks a heightened recognition that when it comes to health care, we are all in this together.
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