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...restore full military ties between the two nations. PAPUA NEW GUINEA Chaotic Two men were shot and then hacked to pieces in continuing violence surrounding the country's elections. Rival tribes went on a rampage in the town of Tari in the Southern Highlands stealing as many as 55 ballot boxes containing up to 50,000 votes, according to officials. Troops were flown in but failed to make an impression on the level of unrest in the remote area. The poll has become so chaotic that the country's newspapers called for fresh voting, but the Election Commission has continued...
...nominating committee selects a number of candidates for the ballot equal to one-and-a-half times the number of spots open on the 30-member board. Others can petition to get on the ballot by collecting a requisite number of alumni signatures—this year...
...statement accompanying the ballot, Dulles expressed his desire to give back to “the world’s greatest university” and stressed the international perspective he gained spending much of the past two decades overseas. How Harvard relates to the world abroad has gained even greater relevance in the wake of Sept. 11, he said...
Those elected this year touched on a variety of themes in their ballot statements...
...walks of life. I took a two-week leave from the congressional campaign to help an organization trying to legalize marijuana in the state. With this group, I led a team to rural northern Nevada so we could gather enough signatures for the initiative to appear on the ballot. My crack team of volunteers consisted of a failed stand-up comic, an ex-felon who spent the 1990s in California State Penitentiary (a reformed pimp and carjacker), and his girlfriend. While this alone could have provided the plot for a bad movie, to my amusement (and hassle), there was much...