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...hundred kilometers to the north, several much-fancied entrants in this year's Tour de France find themselves kicking their heels on the roadside after a doping row. Meanwhile the sport of kings - the polite name for British horse [an error occurred while processing this directive] racing - has been cast into turmoil by an alleged betting fraud and the arrest of Kieren Fallon, one of its most accomplished jockeys. And to what prosecutors and investigating committees maintain is systemic corruption can be added an outsize helping of low-level deceit that tends to be marked down as "gamesmanship." One British...
...apparent lack of supervision makes it harder for military officials to cast this as a one-time, isolated incident, particularly after an Army general concluded last week that Marine officers had been negligent in failing to probe the deaths in Haditha. In a joint statement, the U.S. ambassador and the senior U.S. commander in Iraq called the soldiers' alleged acts in Mahmudiya "absolutely inexcusable and unacceptable." Officials say one purpose of their pledge to vigorously and transparently investigate and prosecute the crimes is to quell the calls from Iraqis, among them Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, to stop granting...
...young, and confident, it still manages to ask unanswerable questions with colorful hints of philosophical depth. For this reason, it was unfortunate to see some empty seats in the audience. Apparently, there are only a handful of unsold tickets left before the last performance on July 8th, but this cast definitely deserves a full house. Although the script raises more heady questions than it answers, the nimble cast and the flawless crew make up for Gesner’s shortcomings. It’s especially hard to achieve moments of personal brilliance amidst a very balanced cast of six. However...
Though preliminary results had shown Calderón leading by 400,000 votes, or about one percent, the official count yesterday, with 100 percent of the electoral districts reporting, gave him a margin of 234,000 votes out of 41 million cast. The Federal Election Institute reported that Calderón received 35.9 percent of the vote to López Obrador’s 35.3 percent. López Obrador has declared that he will protest the results and had demanded a recount in the electoral courts...
ROLA DASHTI, economist and candidate in Kuwait's parliamentary elections last week, urging women to cast ballots in the first poll in which they were allowed to run or vote. No woman was elected...