Word: electivity
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...many Nigerians--especially those in the Yoruba-dominated southwest, where Abiola hailed from--memories go back only five years, to Nigeria's last ill-fated attempt to elect a civilian regime. Abiola appeared to win that election, even if he did it by dumping money on the electorate. But Nigeria's military bosses refused to accept the result and annulled the election. A year later, after Abiola proclaimed himself President anyway, a new strongman, General Sani Abacha, charged him with treason and clapped him in prison. After four years of mostly solitary confinement, Abiola's spirit appeared to be broken...
...list of front-runners, none of whom have Hashimoto's dynamic reputation -- he'll come from the ranks of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. And that's part of Japan's conundrum. Traditionally, there has been no serious alternative to the LDP. The Japanese public has been willing to elect members of rival parties into the weak Upper House as a form of protest, as they did on Sunday, but they're still reluctant to put opposition candidates behind the wheel of real power in the dominant Lower House...
...pays to play it safe, though: before installing Windows 98, back up any sensitive files onto floppies. Elect to make an emergency start-up disk, which is a way to boot your system if all else fails. Also during setup you can save a copy of Windows 95. Do this in case you want to revert to your old operating system--a fallback if, say, your Win 98 disk is corrupted. Note, however, that the backup will consume 50 megabytes of space on your hard drive, which you'll want to reclaim later. (Windows 98 hogs 200 megabytes of space...
...while visiting my uncle, the Rev. Ellis Alford, in Hattiesburg, Miss., I met Vernon Dahmer Sr., who with my uncle and others, including some whites, was planning the strategy to elect a white woman as insurance commissioner. Dahmer was an impressive, deliberate man who was very easy to talk with. In late 1965 at March Air Force Base in California, I met his son Vernon Jr., who was characteristically like his father. The death of his father the following January made quite a stir. In 1966, you see, Riverside County, Calif., had much in common with Forest County, Miss...
...addition to the offensive leadership provided by Francisco and Suurkask and the anchoring of the defense by Springer, other players turned in fine seasons as well. Asano played extended minutes while splitting time on offense and defense, and she is poised, along with fellow co-captain-elect Mleczko, to lead Harvard to the national prominence it has long sought...