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Summers ultimately fell to mounting pressure from members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences calling for his resignation. They had assailed his leadership style as well as the resignation of Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby and his handling of the government fraud scandal implicating Jones Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer...
DECLARED PRESIDENT. RENE PREVAL, 63, ex-leader of Haiti; by election officials, following allegations of ballot fraud after Préval's lead appeared to be dwindling as the vote count wore on; in Port-au-Prince. An agronomist by training, Préval is beloved by the country's impoverished majority. He was President from 1996 to 2001 and replaces the interim government installed after the 2004 ouster of Jean-Bertrand Aristide...
...DECLARED PRESIDENT. RENE PREVAL, 63, ex-leader of Haiti; by election officials, following allegations of ballot fraud after Pr?val's lead appeared to be dwindling as the vote count wore on; in Port-au-Prince. An agronomist by training, Pr?val is beloved by the country's impoverished majority. He was President from 1996 to 2001 and replaces the interim government installed after the 2004 ouster of Jean-Bertrand Aristide...
...Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) Thursday reflects the clear presidential choice of the Haitian people: Rene Garcia Preval was just below the 50 percent mark needed to avoid a runoff when the vote was halted Tuesday - after Preval had threatened a legal battle over charges of massive fraud, citing tens of thousands of ineligible and blank ballots. His point was underscored later on Tuesday when supporters discovered thousands of apparently legitimate ballot papers and electoral material containing votes for Preval that had been tossed in a dump just outside the capital...
...logistical problems that plagued the presidential poll, and there has been little inclination in Haiti's political class to delve too deeply into just how the country's most expensive elections ever could have been conducted with such lax oversight. Preval has intimated that he has proof of the fraud, which can be traced to polling station workers. Those 36,000 positions were prized by members of the various political parties, and Preval may not want to open the lid on that pot, particularly now that the vast majority of presidential candidates have recognized his victory. Those close to Preval...