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R&D: Berlusconi Wins Confidence Vote, the Individual Mandate in the Healthcare Law is Struck Down, and Germany Contemplates a Return to the Deutschmark

Here is your R&D for December 14th: Berlusconi May Expand Majority, May Resign To Do So from the Wall Street Journal After surviving a vote on no confidence in the lower house of the Italian parliament, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi … Continue reading

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R&D: 1994 in 2010?, U.S. Tells the Palestinians ‘No’ on a Settlement Freeze, and Virginia Reawakens the National Abortion Debate

Here is your R&D for August 24th: Poll numbers in 1994, a bad year for Democrats, don’t bode well for them in 2010 from the Washington Post Some political commentators have speculated that 2010 could be 1994 all over again … Continue reading

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HotTopics: International Extemp Questions for the Week of December 1st-7th, 2009

1.  Is Switzerland’s vote to ban minaret construction a setback for efforts to better integrate Muslims into European society? 2.  How will Australia’s defeat of a carbon trading system impact Copenhagen? 3.  Will North Korea’s freeze on cash transactions accelerate … Continue reading

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