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...imminent release of the results may be a result of increasing pressure from African leaders to resolve the crisis. And although analysts had expected that after the four-week delay, the result would give Mugabe a razor-thin majority, forcing a run-off that the ruling party would then try to win through violent intimidation, the fact that the recount upheld the opposition parliamentary victory may have revised pessimistic expectations. "I think it's going to be very difficult for them to announce anything other than a Tsvangirai win tomorrow," Zimbabwean human rights activist Elinor Sisulu told TIME from South...
Never during the four-week campaign did it appear that the Tories would have a tight race, let alone lose. From the start, the polls showed Labor badly trailing the Conservatives, and as the weeks wore on, the margin grew as high as 21 points. Hobbled by a platform that many voters found impossibly ambitious and disturbingly leftist, Labor conducted a campaign in which almost nothing went right. Foot and Deputy Leader Denis Healey, 65, wrangled publicly over details of the party's controversial disarmament policies. That dispute had barely ended when former Prime Minister Callaghan, 71, revived...
This means turning deliberately against not only our own selfishness but our own selflessness, too. Instead of rigorous four-week language immersion classes, we should wander around in foreign countries poor and planless. We should skip out on repairing homes on the Mississippi coastline and join in on traveling up the Natchez Trace Parkway in a truck. We should substitute out bringing esteemed literary editors coffee for scrawling our own poems on the backs of napkins...
...foreign eyes, it seems insensitive -- even criminally negligent--of Iraq's parliamentarians to take a four-week vacation while their country struggles with monstrous problems and their countrymen cope with the 110°F (43°C) heat. But to Iraqis, callous disregard is pretty much exactly what they have come to expect from their politicians. Some of the most prominent Iraqi politicians spend little time in the country, much less in parliament. Egregious absenteeism cuts across sectarian and ethnic lines: perennial no-shows include Shi'ite elder Ibrahim al-Jaafari, Sunni leader Saleh Mutlak and secular stalwarts Iyad Allawi and Adnan...
...course, not everyone becomes an addict. That's because we have other, more analytical regions that can evaluate consequences and override mere pleasure seeking. Brain imaging is showing exactly how that happens. Paulus, for example, looked at methamphetamine addicts enrolled in a VA hospital's intensive four-week rehabilitation program. Those who were more likely to relapse in the first year after completing the program were also less able to complete tasks involving cognitive skills and less able to adjust to new rules quickly. This suggested that those patients might also be less adept at using analytical areas...