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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Advisors to the Megawati camp have complained that the number of polling stations has been reduced by 69,000 without explanation. "We are afraid that they have been closed in our strongholds," says Hasyim Djojohadikusomo, an advisor to Megawati and brother of her running mate, former general Prabowo Subianto. The opposition is also worried that 5 million names have been added to voter lists, many of whom, they say, are doubles, underage and even dead. "It is just days before the election and we have not received the election roll [voter list] as mandated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As Indonesia's Election Day Nears, Complaints of Fraud Grow Louder | 7/5/2009 | See Source »

...after his death than before. Presley's daughter Lisa Marie, Jackson's wife for 20 months in the mid-'90s, recalled a few days ago on her MySpace page a conversation with Jackson: "He stared at me very intensely and he stated with an almost calm certainty, 'I am afraid that I am going to end up like [Elvis], the way he did.'" (Read "Michael Jackson's Estate: Saved by the Beatles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle Over Michael Jackson's Legacy | 7/2/2009 | See Source »

...Here, it’s very popular to focus on race and ethnicity,” Bovenerk told me after a guest lecture I attended two weeks ago. “Xenophobia is rampant—to the point that minorities are actually afraid of deportation...

Author: By Ahmed N. Mabruk | Title: Are You Moroccan? | 7/1/2009 | See Source »

...little afraid to get the blunt answer...

Author: By Ahmed N. Mabruk | Title: Are You Moroccan? | 7/1/2009 | See Source »

Monsarrat’s most memorable question? In the first week, he received a card that said “I’m afraid of life in its full essence.”  After that, he thought “Boy, this is going to work. People are going to get this...

Author: By Molly M. Strauss | Title: Any Questions? | 6/29/2009 | See Source »

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