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...nation's first general election in seven years. The polls have been a focal point of the country's politics ever since a military intervention in January 2007, which postponed scheduled elections in order to end escalating violence between followers of two rival political parties. In the interim, a caretaker regime of technocrats has set about trying to tackle Bangladesh's wretched record of corruption and reform its volatile electoral politics. Results have been mixed, but the government now looks ready to deliver on its promises for free and credible polls - an effort that's not going unnoticed. Earlier this...
...before. The aborted election two years ago saw some 12 million fake names on the voter roll, which, among other allegations of fraud, led to disputes and running street battles between the country's two main political parties, the Awami League (AL) and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). The interim government rode into power on a tidal wave of popular anger and exasperation with the AL and the BNP and their demagogic, warring leaders, Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia, who ran these behemoth parties as their personal fiefs. Both Hasina and Zia were arrested and imprisoned, charged on various counts...
...take finals right now,” she said. She also mentioned that in years when she had less work for finals she was able to stay home and “have a really long break anyway.” The calendar reform, which was passed by Former Interim President Derek C. Bok in June of 2007, was endorsed by the university deans and the Undergraduate Council earlier that spring. Jon T. Staff V ’10, a former UC representative who worked on the issue, said that calendar reform was “always a longshot?...
...interim, the physics department has been scrutinizing “every single element” of its departmental budget with “great diligence,” according to department chair Christopher W. Stubbs...
...interim, Dr. Ebrahim says, sleep experts have developed more reliable - albeit more complicated than popping a pill - methods of altering the body's natural melatonin production, which may help some of the 100 million people who take international flights from the U.S. each year, and the millions more who live in a perpetual state of jet lag due to night-shift work. One strategy is to use light-dark exposure, which helps cue the body's circadian rhythm. British Airways, for example, offers a "jet-lag calculator" that applies research into bright-light therapy to advise passengers when...