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  President - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Josip Broz Tito, the President for Life of Yugoslavia.
President for Life is a title assumed by some dictators to ensure that their authority or legitimacy is never questioned.
In French legal terminology, the president of a court consisting of multiple judges is the foremost judge; he chairs the meeting of the court and directs the debates (and this thus addressed as "Mr President", Monsieur le Président, or appropriate feminine forms).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/President   (2097 words)

  
 President for Life - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
President for Life is a title assumed by some dictators to ensure that their authority, legitimacy, and term is never questioned or disputed.
Some very long-serving authoritarian presidents, such as Fidel Castro, who are frequently thought of as examples of Presidents for Life, actually undergo periodic renewal of mandate but these are largely regarded as show elections.
North Korea's president Kim Il-sung was never declared President for Life, but after his death the government amended the constitution to declare him "Eternal President."
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/President_for_Life   (490 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: President for Life
François Duvalier François Duvalier known as Papa Doc (possibly April 14, 1907 - April 21, 1971) was the President of Haiti from 1957 and later dictator (President for Life) from 1964 until his death.
Ferdinand Edralin Marcos (September 11, 1917–September 28, 1989) was the tenth President of the Philippines, serving from 1965 to 1986.
Kwame Nkrumah (September 21, 1909 – April 27, 1972) was an African anti-colonial leader, founder and first president of the modern Ghanaian state and one of the most influential Pan-Africanists of the 20th century.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/President-for-Life   (2167 words)

  
 TCS Daily - President for Life?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
President Bush summarized the differences nicely: Reproductive cloning involves creating a cloned embryo and implanting it into a woman with the goal of creating a child Research cloning, on the other hand, involves the creation of cloned human embryos which are then destroyed to derive stem cells.
The President is against both types of cloning and the ban he is urging Congress to pass would prohibit both kinds.
The President then argued his belief that research cloning would inevitably lead to reproductive cloning, and since reproductive cloning should be banned, all cloning should be banned.
www.techcentralstation.com /041202C.html   (1231 words)

  
 Pro-Life Advocates: Vote for President Bush
President Bush has compiled a record during his first term in office that can only be described as extraordinarily pro-life.
Attorneys for the president have vigorously defended the decision in court.
President Bush also has spoken out in favor of Terri Schiavo's family and their efforts to defend their daughter's right to live.
www.lifenews.com /nat704.html   (1082 words)

  
 President for Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
President for Life is a title assumed by some dictators to ensure that their authority or is never questioned.
The first well-known incident of a leader his term indefinitely was Roman dictator Julius Caesar who made himself " Perpetual Dictator " (commonly mistranslated as 'Dictator-for-life') in 45 BC His actions would later be mimicked the French leader Napoleon Bonaparte who was appointed "First Consul for in 1802.
Carter as a "failed president" and an intellectua...
www.freeglossary.com /President_for_Life   (513 words)

  
 Vice President for Student Life
The work of the student life educator at CUA is based on a philosophy that the goal of education is not simply to develop the intellect of a student, but also to facilitate the growth of the whole person.
The office of the vice president for student life is responsible for establishing programs and services to support the development of the individual student and to enhance the quality of campus community life.
The vice president provides the leadership for a team of professionals who, while specializing in specific areas of student development and services, are committed to interdisciplinary initiatives to enable students to fully participate in a distinguished community of researching, teaching, learning and service.
studentlife.cua.edu   (531 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: A president for life
President Bush recently reiterated that he would veto congressional legislation that advances taxpayer funding on new embryonic stem-cell research.
Thank God we have a president who – while some of his pro-life colleagues have abandoned him – gallantly continues to be an intrepid spokesman for life.
This president, who has never vetoed a bill, is using the power of his office to defend life.
www.wnd.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44593   (675 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Profile: Gabon's 'president for life'
During a military coup attempt in 1964, Mba was kidnapped and Bongo was held in custody in a military camp in Libreville.
The president responded by meeting some of his critics to discuss revising legislation to guarantee free and fair elections.
On the international stage, the Gabonese president has cultivated an image as a peacemaker, playing a pivotal role in attempts to solve the crises in the Central African Republic, Congo-Brazzaville, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/2646825.stm   (760 words)

  
 President for Life Encyclopedia Article, Description, History and Biography @ GreatArtworks.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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 CNN.com Specials
But Dutch displayed even then the willful optimism that he carried through life, dealing with his family's poverty and the hardships they faced with the belief that there were better times ahead.
At Dixon High School, he was outgoing and active, serving as president of the student council and excelling in football, basketball and track.
In the process, the college president resigned and Reagan got an early and enticing brush with the spotlight.
www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2004/reagan/stories/bio.part.one/index.html   (1364 words)

  
 President For Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Bush and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili during Bush's public address on Freedom Square in Tbilisi on May 10, 2005, and sentenced him to life in prison.
John Ray, President of Life Designs Medical commenting on the new relationship said, “The medical aesthetics market is one of the fastest growing segments in...
His actions would later be mimicked by the French leader Napoleon Bonaparte who was appointed "First Consul for life" in 1803.
www.wikiverse.org /president-for-life   (414 words)

  
 The Observer | Review | President for life
I think the President has not completely defined his role; I don't think he'll have a formal role or seek office, like Secretary General of the UN - these are fantasies --he is going to be himself.'
As President, she recalls, he was usually too absorbed in other thoughts to notice.
He told the Norwegians that fatherhood was the most important part of his life, and how he had helped Chelsea, who starts at Oxford next week, with her maths homework until the sums became too hard for him.
www.observer.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,548703,00.html   (3366 words)

  
 Sobaka News Wire: Uganda: President for Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has signed a parliamentary bill that will abolish term limits and amend the 1995 Uganda Constitution, according to political insiders in Kampala.
According to the 1995 Constitution, presidents were required to resign at least three months prior to running for a third term.
As the amendments were implemented upon the signature of President Museveni, this situation meant that only the president knew that the law was now different than what it has been for the last ten years, until someone notified the MPs.
www.diacritica.com /sobaka/newswire/2005/09/0929005a.html   (378 words)

  
 BEAVER COUNTY MILITIA DISCUSSION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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www.network54.com /Forum/23059?it=14   (180 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Africa | Museveni plots to 'rule for life'
Former Ugandan President Milton Obote, who was twice deposed by the army and who now lives in exile in Zambia, says that President Museveni's "infamous desire to be Czar of Uganda" is now clear.
Mr Obote opposes the lifting of the term limit on the presidency before a provision for competitive multi-party politics is put in place, similar to those in countries like Britain, India and South Africa.
Mr Obote said in a statement that President Museveni has reached a stage where he is incapable of differentiating between the demands of the people and his own interests.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/3149196.stm   (479 words)

  
 Boston.com / Business / MIT president promoting life sciences   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
But the school's new president wants the life sciences to get equal billing and draw greater strength from collaboration between different disciplines.
Hockfield said her Aug. 26 appointment as MIT's 16th president -- following 15 men, many of them engineers -- is yet another sign of advances in the life sciences at the privately endowed research university.
To keep MIT among the perennial leaders in college rankings, Hockfield wants to encourage scientists from hard sciences to collaborate with life scientists to foster advances in fields such as robotics and genetics, which borrow from a wide range of disciplines.
www.boston.com /business/articles/2004/12/07/mit_president_promoting_life_sciences   (538 words)

  
 FRONTLINE/WORLD . Election 2004 - Uganda | PBS
Days after the president's speech, I watched a parade of motorcycle taxi drivers wrapped in dry banana leaves, which I was told later is a symbol of support for Museveni's third term.
But that is why we have fixed terms in the constitution -- to limit the power of the president," he told me. "Everybody knows the power of the incumbent to reward people for their patronage.
Once considered to be a possible successor to Museveni, he is now an outspoken critic of the president, and chairman of the Parliamentary Advocacy Forum, a group of bi-partisan legislators outside the umbrella of Museveni's Movement organization.
www.pbs.org /frontlineworld/elections/uganda   (2806 words)

  
 New Bill Could Make Bush President For Life
A House bill has been introduced that would change the 22nd amendment and enable George Bush to remain President for the rest of his political life.
The bill would repeal limitations on a President holding office for a maximum of two terms.
This Article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.
www.infowars.com /articles/ps/bush_new_bill_make_president_for_life.htm   (337 words)

  
 POLITICS-AFRICA: President-for-life Syndrome
Even where the civil society is strong like in Uganda, President Yoweri Museveni, who has ruled the East African country for 17 years, is still trying to bulldoze his ways and seek another term of office.
But African leaders also ignore the fact that even if French President Jacque Chirac runs for a third term in 2007 in spite of his advanced age (he will be 75), he cannot count, certainly, on automatic re-election.
This is a challenge for South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki and his Nigerian counterpart Olusegun Obasanjo who have committed themselves, through the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), a blueprint for Africa's recovery, to sell Africa to investors in exchange for better governance.
www.ipsnews.net /interna.asp?idnews=19753   (955 words)

  
 OCEANS ENTERPRISES - THE LADY AND THE PRESIDENT - THE LIFE AND LOSS OF THE S.S. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
The Lady and the President covers the establishment of the base, and the construction of five major airfields that contributed to the gradual demise of the Japanese hold on the Pacific.
Post-war salvage of the President Coolidge is covered in some detail, with the remarkable salvage of 600 tons of bunker oil transferred to another ocean liner after thirty years in the sea.
The title The Lady and the President is a reference to one of the major attractions to divers who visit the wreck of the President Coolidge, the 'Lady and the Unicorn', a wall decor in the First Class Smoking Room.
www.oceans.com.au /pc.html   (1288 words)

  
 Ceremonies remember, celebrate president's life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
President Ronald Reagan's casket is escorted towards the Capitol Wednesday.
A hearse carrying Reagan and a cortege of vehicles traveled down Suitland Parkway through a bit of Southeast D.C. to 395 and then into Virginia and past the headquarters of the American military, the Pentagon, down the George Washington Parkway and across the Memorial Bridge to Constitution.
The 40th president will lie in state at the Capitol until this morning before being transferred by motorcade to the National Cathedral for a memorial service, before returning to his final resting place in California.
www.dcmilitary.com /army/pentagram/9_24/features/29546-1.html   (784 words)

  
 TCS: Tech - President for Life?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Bush established earlier in the speech that "nearly every American agrees that [reproductive cloning] should be banned." The President then argued his belief that research cloning would inevitably lead to reproductive cloning, and since reproductive cloning should be banned, all cloning should be banned.
The President's push for a ban faces a considerable uphill battle.
He failed to do so, and in that failure missed an opportunity to push the cloning debate where it needs to be -- and where it ultimately, whether he wants it to or not, is heading.
www.consumersvoice.org /1051/techwrapper.jsp?PID=1051-250&CID=1051-041202C   (1055 words)

  
 Pinko Feminist Hellcat: My Campaign for President for Life
Critics have charged that this process is rigged as the citizens morality enforcers are usually people chosen by a neighborhood's married couples--most neighborhoods chose a man and a woman to alternate duty night, although some feel the need to go on raids together.
Madame President said that the couples who chose the enforcers only leave their housekeys with them as a show of good faith.
President Sheelzebub noted that the firm has been very creative in its quest to entertain her and push Christmas on people.
pinkofeministhellcat.typepad.com /pinko_feminist_hellcat/my_campaign_for_president_for_life/index.html   (14919 words)

  
 BYU NewsNet - SLOC president shares life lessons from Olympics
SLOC President Fraser Bullock encouraged students to look inside and light the fire within at the Tuesday Oct. 1 devotional in the Marriott Center.
At the devotional, Bullock spoke of life lessons to be learned from Olympians who lit the fire within when faced with challenges.
A second life lesson Bullock related learning from the Olympics was there is a divine hand in everything.
newsnet.byu.edu /story.cfm/40055   (510 words)

  
 Bill Clinton - President For Life
Hillary had meanwhile won the Senatorial election to represent New York, and the couple prepared to establish the rival court of the presidency-in- exile in Washington.
I think the President has not completely defined his role; I don't think he'll have a formal role or seek office, like Secretary General of the UN - these are fantasies - -he is going to be himself.'
But quite apart from Clinton's political mission and his addiction to public life and popular adulation, there is a time- honoured reason for this frantic touring: debt.
www.rense.com /general13/pres.htm   (3323 words)

  
 Student Leader - President for Life
Halfway through the year, his running mate was forced to resign and Wymer was sworn in as president for the remainder of the term.
There are so many SG presidents who say if ‘I only had another year.’ They wish they had some luxury of learning those nuances of the system.
The desirability of having a multiple-term president is the continuity of learning who the players and policies are, then being able to take it to the next step.
www.studentleader.com /slspring2003_president-for-life.htm   (2673 words)

  
 Turkmen President “for Life” Promises to Resign in 2009 - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Turkmen President “for Life” Promises to Resign in 2009 - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM
Turkmen President “for Life” Promises to Resign in 2009
Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov, who was allowed by the supreme legislature to serve as the head of state for life, has promised to schedule “democratic presidential elections” for 2009, ITAR-TASS reports.
www.mosnews.com /news/2005/04/08/turkmenpresident.shtml   (687 words)

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