Word: 27th
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...months ago when I walked down the narrow alleyways of Mombasa, I never would have imagined that this sleepy city could turn into the war-zone that it is today. But, since the rigged December 27th presidential elections, violence has swept over Kenya from the port city of Mombasa to the slums of Nairobi. By comparison to some of its East African neighbors, Kenya has been an example of peaceful democracy. Nevertheless, Kenya’s current unrest is the legacy of its failure to address historical injustices and is a sad reminder of the virulent resentments that longstanding inequalities...
...year its shares in the U.S. are up about 10%--the best performance among major drug companies--even as the Morgan Stanley Capital USA Health Care Index, a basket of big drug stocks, has fallen about 25%. Novartis is the 17th most valuable company in the world, up from 27th last year...
Last time Harvard met UCSB, it dropped a 85-61 rout. It was December 27th, 1968. Harvard hopes that nearly forty years will be enough time to turn the tables in its favor...
...concern.”But even at the end of his 20-year term, Bok was not sure that Harvard College was any more economically diverse than it had been at the beginning. This was not lost on Lawrence H. Summers, who in 2001 became Harvard’s 27th president. Efforts to recruit minorities made Harvard’s undergraduate student body more racially diverse, but aside from the institution of need-blind admissions, no similar steps had been taken to diversify along economic lines—a problem not unique to Harvard, according to Summers...
...morning. No rallies had been programmed for the coming days, but lawyers, who had been instrumental in restoring Chaudhry to power, had announced a backup plan were the Supreme Court to declare Musharraf's candidacy legal. Nomination papers must be filed in person at the Electoral Commission by the 27th of September, and lawyer's groups had called for mass protests to block Musharraf's papers from being filed . "Musharraf's opponents made an announcement that they would put the Election Commission offices under siege," explains Senator Nisar Memon, Chair of the Senate Standing Committee on Defense. For that reason...