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...Caracas CHAVEZ WITHOUT LIMITS Venezuelan voters passed a referendum to remove presidential term limits, allowing President Hugo Chávez to seek re-election indefinitely. The constitutional amendment, supported by 54% of voters (including these Chávez supporters, above), comes more than a year after the leftist leader's first attempt was shot down. Chávez says the measure was necessary to continue his socialist reforms; critics say it has brought the country closer to dictatorship...
...Harvard caught a lucky break when a Wildcat goal was called back because the net had come out of position.The Crimson fed off the confidence gathered from the kill, and at 15:34 in the second, Harvard junior Kathryn Farni netted the equalizer.Farni took advantage of a botched clearing attempt, and her long, unassisted slapshot from the blue line sailed through traffic and past Minton to even the score, 2-2.“Two months ago, down 2-0, I think we probably would have folded,†Stone said. “But these kids believe...
...comfort some to see the spirit of domestic exclusivity alive and well on Harvard’s campus, well after the housing process became truly random. The Eliot House Committee, in an attempt to retain their erstwhile elite status, has taken this entitlement to a new, breezier level: by taking off their pants. Dimitry A. Doohovskoy ’09, Eliot HoCo Co-chair, organized a “Pants-less Dining Experience†for the residents of Eliot House last Thursday. In a vehement e-mail over the Eliot House list, Doohovskoy instructed Eliotites to drop trowsers...
...questions fully - a claim that is getting roundly dismissed this week by state Republicans and Democrats alike. It's also one that even Burris has now contradicted. While saying "I have absolutely nothing to hide - I have done nothing wrong," Burris acknowledged this week that he in fact did attempt, albeit unsuccessfully, to raise cash for the embattled governor even as he was making his interest in the potential appointment known, though he maintained there was nothing improper about his actions. "I welcome the opportunity to go before any and all investigative bodies," he told reporters Tuesday...
...surprisingly, the boycott has apparently angered Chinese authorities, who sources in exile allege have been engaged in a security crackdown code named Strike Hard since Jan. 18 in an attempt to head off trouble. "They have conducted house-to-house searches. They have military in plain clothes everywhere and snipers on the roofs," says Tsewang Rigzin, president of the Tibetan Youth Congress based in Dharamsala, India. According to one nomadic herdsman I meet at the Longwu monastery in Tongren, one of the most important outside the Tibet Autonomous Region, the attempt by the authorities to force celebrations - and the Tibetan...