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...only brought us misery. Billström's party, the Social Democrats, promised in the 2002 election not to establish tolls on cars in Stockholm's inner city the way that London does. But after gaining power, that is exactly what Billström did. [The test period will begin next year.] Apparently, a politician can promise a certain amount of things but break those promises if the election outcome is good. That's too Machiavellian for my taste. Christian Westling Stockholm Trauma Clinic I was appalled by the grisly realities described in Aparisim Ghosh's harrowing account...
...Syrian troops and some of the intelligence operatives who had stifled Lebanese life for three decades. The Bush Administration has used the scenes of Lebanese citizens demanding independence and free elections as vindication of its push for democracy in the Arab world. This week 3 million Lebanese voters begin going to the polls to elect a government that the U.S. hopes will be the first in 29 years free of Syrian control. And in the saga's final, Shakespearean twist, it is Hariri's son Saad, 35, a political novice who briefly fled the country after Rafiq's death...
...cars burned by the blast. A U.N. fact-finding mission concluded in March that the Syrian regime bore "primary responsibility" for the political circumstances leading up to Hariri's assassination, though Damascus has denied any involvement. A U.N. team arrived in Lebanon at the end of May to begin a formal investigation, but it's unclear whether the probe will finger the perpetrators...
This is Judgment Day, the one, says Rusch, "that separates the men from the boys." With very little sleep--probably only a few hours in the past 48--the racers are beginning to feel the physical and mental toll of their almost constant racing. Drinking enough water to fuel the body's internal needs is critical. After a person is up for two days straight, the body's metabolic systems start to overheat like an aging car. Without water and time to rest, muscles begin to falter and the kidneys start to sputter. The heart becomes less efficient...
According to Kirby, the search for a new dean will begin early this summer...