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...state. The censorship disappoints journalists who were pleased when Abdullah initially allowed for more freedom of expression than predecessor Mahathir. In October, Malaysia received its worst-ever ranking in the worldwide press-freedom index compiled by watchdog Reporters Without Borders, falling by 32 places to No. 124. The drop was due, in part, to two separate cases in which a blogger and a publisher of an online newspaper were both pulled in for official questioning. "There's lots of intimidation toward people who speak out," says Steven Gan, editor of the online publication Malaysiakini. "Instead of saying...
...bring the score to 5-0. Vaillancourt and Cahow recorded their third assists of the night on the power-play strike. Harvard’s balanced offense and dominant defense were once again key to the team’s success. “We started from the drop of the puck and played a pretty complete game,” Cahow said. The Crimson outshot the Golden Knights, 26-22, and capitalized on two of its three power-play opportunities while holding Clarkson scoreless through 10 minutes of penalty kill...
Unlike India, some African countries, including Uganda, Zimbabwe, and Kenya, are witnessing a drop in new cases unrelated to changes in methodology...
...disease has been around longer in these countries,” Halperin said. “The drop is caused by change of people’s behavior, due to many factors such as improving AIDS education and increasing fear of the disease...
...first, a little history. It was clear, in early summer, that the campaign had decided to only do drop-bys in Iowa and New Hampshire and concentrate instead on Florida and the February 5 primary states. The campaign was trying to make a virtue of necessity: Giuliani so lagged Mitt Romney in Iowa and New Hampshire that he simply decided to fight on more favorable ground, where his name recognition and more natural constituencies would help him a few weeks later. There was some soundness to this theory, since the states holding primaries on February 5 include such potentially Rudy...