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...polling station just a few blocks away, fears for security were trumped by concerns about vote rigging. The station opened an hour and a half late, causing many voters to give up in disgust before they had a chance to cast their ballots. "The time of voting is from eight am to five," said Jalil Paracha, 55, an electronics shop owner standing outside. "They should give us more time to vote at the end of the day, but they won't. The more time allowed would go against the government." Paracha said that rigging was a foregone conclusion, and warned...
...Northern Illinois University, not far from his girlfriend of five months, Monique Caspillan, 19. It was Valentine's Day, and they were to celebrate later that evening. Instead, they became witnesses to a St. Valentine's Day massacre in this campus of 25,000 students in DeKalb, about an hour's drive west of Chicago. Five students were killed. The sixth fatality was the gunman, identified as Steven P. Kazmierczak, 27, who apparently took his own life on the lecture hall stage. Many others were shot or injured, including Peterson, who survived the rampage. It had been a week full...
...character’s city. Guerín filmed the city’s inhabitants, as opposed to filling it with hundreds of “extras.” He noted that maybe only a quarter of the film was the result of his intervention. For nearly an hour and a half, the camera follows a man who searches for a woman named Sylvia, whom he saw in the city six years ago. “All men, including those happily married with children, [remember] the day in which [they] saw an unknown woman crossing the street...
...fact, there is historical precedent for an attempt at a partnered presidency, which, in its eleventh hour character, offers lessons on how the process should not be conducted. In 1980, Ronald Reagan engaged in intense negotiations at the Republican convention for ex-President Gerald Ford to return as Reagan’s super-vice president. Later that night, the discussions finally faltered, Reagan picked up the phone and belatedly offered the vice-presidency to someone else . Enter George H. W. Bush and, eventually, George W. Bush. Of such missed opportunities and personal dynamics, history is made...
...it’s been a number of years since I had a dress on. But it feels just like home.RR: Really? You think you could get used to it?CM: I don’t think I could get used to it, but it certainly is a fun hour and a half or two hours of dress up. And there’s a lot more air circulation in a dress so when you’re under stage lights it’s much more helpful. Keeps everything cool.Kathleen H. Chen ’09RR: What?...