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...Still, with two months before the presidential election, it's too soon to write her off. Various parties are forging alliances, which could swing the vote in her favor. But the incumbent must convince the electorate that her administration is dynamic and focused. "Megawati is very much a part of the past," says James Castle of Jakarta-based consulting company Castle Group. "Indonesians are now looking to the future." Parking-lot attendant Asep has already made up his mind?he's voting for Yudhoyono. "He is firm, he is a man of action, and I think he is more able...
...wrote that the original ballot count for the presidential election was not 63-63, but 64-63 in favor of candidate Zachary D. Raynor ’05, who ended up losing to Lawrence E. Adjah Jr. ’06 in a runoff election...
...Thus, the question was broached as to how we could make it appear that a 63-63 tie occurred,” wrote Lee in the e-mail. “The answer we came up with was to go back to the ballots, particularly those in favor of Zachary. Hence, after the 64-63 count had been established for more than three hours, we went back into his stack and removed one more ballot, calling it questionable...
...works: 67% of British voters say it's "failing"; only 27% want it to become a political union; tabloids regularly caricature meddling, know-nothing Brussels bureaucrats. An ICM survey taken after Blair's U-turn showed that only 25% of the British public planned to vote in favor of the constitution; according to Eurobarometer, the E.U.'s polling arm, average support for the pact in the rest of Europe...
...lark, or it could have been the cover, one of the first of the psychedelic era, and I was fifteen. The five-man Steve Miller Band, with Moby Grape are still the only Hashbury era rock bands I can tolerate over repeated listenings. Miller broke up that band, in favor of a trio, at the musical instant when trios went totally out of fashion. He rode back into the mainstream of rock music, Steve Miller's remains as little known as his five-man band did. I fact, though, this is rumored to be a new Steve Miller Band...