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...Coming off the dismal display against the Saints, the Crimson took the court 24 hours later to face the tournament hosts—the University of Southern California—probably the toughest opponent on its schedule all season. Despite the fact that Harvard’s upset bid ended in a 95-74 defeat, the Crimson played the Trojans nearly even in the second half and can take a lot of encouragement from the way that it competed against one of the top teams in the country.“We responded really well against...
Yusuf had opposed Prime Minister Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein's bid to sign a peace deal with some moderate Islamists in June. The President then tried to fire the Prime Minister, a move that was rejected by parliament. Pressure had been building for months for Yusuf to step down, and the infighting between government officials (whose power extends to one town - Baidoa - and a few square feet of Mogadishu) looked like the last straw. "President Abdullahi Yusuf has marginalized large parts of the population and exacerbated divisions," think tank International Crisis Group wrote in a recent report. "The latest...
...prosecute the perpetrators, but rights groups say the proposed law creating it is so full of holes as to render the tribunal useless. "The real perpetrators and the real financiers will actually go scot-free," says Ruth Oniang'o, who runs a rural outreach program and lost in her bid for a parliamentary seat in 2007. "This is the Kenya I know and the Kenya I understand. Money and power talk, and those who don't have either continue to be victims...
...Huntington’s work also took him beyond academia. In 1968, he advised then-Vice President Hubert Humphrey during his bid for the presidency. And in 1970, he co-founded Foreign Policy magazine...
...Democratic values have failed today." - After a failed bid to become the PPP's candidate for Prime Minister in 2002. He claimed that his supporters were either threatened or offered top government jobs in return for crossing over to support Musharraf's candidate. (TIME, November...