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...somewhat taken aback. I had not expected to have something like 10 people speaking out against him,? says Abernathy. ?Some were asking point-blank for his resignation, others were saying they were going to put a lack of confidence motion on the agenda for the next meeting. [The denunciations] went on for almost an hour...
...registering assists on all four Colgate goals as the Raiders defeated the Harvard men’s hockey team, 4-1, at Starr Rink on Friday night. Colgate junior winger Marc Fulton tallied the eventual game-winner with just 39 seconds remaining in the first period, converting from point-blank range on a feed from freshman blueliner Nick St. Pierre. Wilson earned the secondary assist on the play, already his second point of the night after he helped set up sophomore center Tyler Burton’s tally to open scoring at 4:37 of the opening frame. Thanks...
...reflects the clear presidential choice of the Haitian people: Rene Garcia Preval was just below the 50 percent mark needed to avoid a runoff when the vote was halted Tuesday - after Preval had threatened a legal battle over charges of massive fraud, citing tens of thousands of ineligible and blank ballots. His point was underscored later on Tuesday when supporters discovered thousands of apparently legitimate ballot papers and electoral material containing votes for Preval that had been tossed in a dump just outside the capital...
...Preval met the CEP on Wednesday, and negotiated a technical solution: The total number of blank votes would be divided among the 33 candidates on the basis of the percentage of the counted vote accrued by each. That formula pushed Mr. Preval, who even by the CEP's count had won more than four times the number of votes of his nearest rival, over the 50 percent mark, and prompted a massive celebration by hundreds of thousands of supporters who had taken to the streets in protest to defend their vote...
...Preval met the CEP on Wednesday, and negotiated a technical solution: The total total number of blank votes would be divided between the 33 candidates on the basis of the percentage of the counted vote accrued by each. That formula pushed Mr. Preval - who even by the CEP's count had won more than four times the number of votes of his nearest rival - over the 50 percent mark, and prompted a massive celebration by hundreds of thousands of supporters had taken to the streets in protest to defend their vote...