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...voting cards that could in turn be used to stuff ballot boxes. Few of the women's stations were monitored, which raises further questions. "I think people know there will be fraud, but what can we do?" asks Zahir of the Ministry of Finance. "Even if we all have ink on our fingers, it doesn't matter, because at the end of the day, officials will be adding ballots that are not from the people." When asked why he was even bothering to vote, Zahir shrugs, saying, "As an Afghan, it is my responsibility to help choose our future...
...purportedly authored by Mullah Ghulam Haider, the alleged Taliban commander in Kandahar city. It says those who vote will be considered "enemies of Islam" and could "become a victim" of "new tactics." It does not offer details. Another letter promises to cut off the fingers of people with blue ink stains, a sign they have voted. Last week, hundreds of these letters were plastered on city walls and outside of mosques until morning police patrols tore them down...
...Bunning raised just over $300,000 in the second quarter of this year, less than McConnell himself, who won't see re-election for five years, and less than Trey Grayson, a Harvard lawyer turned secretary of state who had not yet even officially announced his candidacy. Before the ink was dry on Bunning's statement on Monday, Grayson fixed that technicality, announcing he was in the race, and for keeps...
...rural south. His sarong and tunic are the spotless white of a devout Buddhist; his reddish brown scarf the color of korakan, a rough grain eaten as the staple diet of poor farmers. Everything about Rajapaksa - his big laugh, his rough-and-ready English, his bejeweled fingers and ink-black hair - marks him as part of the rural bourgeoisie, not the urban élite educated abroad. This is more than just an image. He was elected to Parliament as its youngest member in 1970 and moved slowly up through the ranks of his party while building a base of support...
According to the Financial Times Deutschland, Wiedeking was entitled to compensation of $200 million or more. But labor representatives on Porsche's supervisory board's protested at such a huge handout and Wiedeking himself suggested a more modest sum. Before the ink had dried on the check, Wiedeking announced he would donate half the money to a Porsche-sponsored charity. Not without a sense of humor, he also pledged to donate $2.3 million to assist "needy journalists". The German taxman will likely get a big chunk of what is left. "For the first time an executive has responded...