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As hapless as they are breathless, the intellectual elite in the Sinhalese community are deeply frustrated now with the direction of the country. Sri Lanka did not need a presidential election for reconciliation with Tamils. The post-electoral violence, intimidation, and disenfranchisement of Tamils are seen as a precursor for...
Days before the election, Google ads aided the final push. "If you were in Massachusetts, pretty much all day every day you would see a Scott Brown ad," says Google spokesman Galen Panger. Those ads also listed regional offices, says Willington, who bet that showing local locations would make it...
The morning before the special election, on Jan. 19, Brown had roughly 76,000 Facebook fans hooked onto his page and more than 10,000 Twitter followers. "I think we out-campaigned [Coakley] every step of the way," says political director Pete Fullerton. "We were able to get out the...
Lost came out in a time in Iran when watching a show at home with family and friends was more exciting than anything going on outside. The 2009 presidential election and subsequent rise of the opposition Green Movement changed that. Nonetheless, innumerable Iranians will see the final season of Lost...
Since his election last April, Zuma has made short shrift of objections to his expansive appetite for women, calling his accusers culturally blinkered and claiming that, in a country of millions of single mothers, polygamy is actually responsible. When asked at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last weekend...