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...step down by an electoral court that found him guilty of buying votes with Viagra. The court concluded that a doctor arrested at a rally for Souza in 2002 - wearing a campaign cap and T shirt - was distributing the anti-impotency drug and other remedies at Souza's behest in exchange for promises of ballot-box support. Souza said he would appeal...
With a flick of the baton, the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) is under his command. But when he first came to Harvard, James Yannatos didn’t expect to stay here. After growing up listening to the Metropolitan Opera at the behest of his father, James Yannatos came to Harvard in 1964, expecting it to be a stepping-stone. “I thought, well, this would be a very nice parenthesis in my professional life. I had no idea I would still be here. The seductive thing was just the combination of working with students and making music...
...charges when he accused the government, in an unscripted, unedited broadcast he made from home, of "probably knowing" that a central claim in its dossier on Iraqi WMD - that some were deployable in 45 minutes - was false and inserted over the objections of the intelligence community, allegedly at the behest of Blair's powerful communications director, Alastair Campbell. The testimony to Hutton showed that top spies put it in, and believed it at the time. Hutton also condemned the BBC's haphazard investigation into Gilligan's claims. Davies and Dyke were so determined to assert the BBC's independence that...
...question no one involved wants to address is whether Khan and his colleagues operated on their own or at the behest of the Pakistani government. President Pervez Musharraf, who under pressure from Washington sacked Khan as head of nuclear-weapons development in early 2001, insists that his four-year-old government has never dabbled in nuclear trade--whatever past regimes might have done. It's possible that Khan & Co. or the military and intelligence officers who long supported such deals acted independently. "I think that during his administration there was a lot going on," said Jay Rockefeller, the top Democrat...
Harvard head coach Katey Stone is intimately familiar with that impact herself, with two medal winners currently at her behest in co-captain defenseman Ruggiero and sophomore forward...