Word: invalidity
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...told the cheering throng. "We should not leave this square until we secure victory." And his supporters did just that. On Saturday evening, after six days of nonstop peaceful protests, the state and its candidate were forced to back down. In a nonbinding vote, Parliament declared the poll results invalid but did not recommend a date for the rerun, although many deputies expect that to happen in mid-December. The Supreme Court, which has final jurisdiction over elections, will examine the fraud allegations and make its ruling this week. But news that Yanukovych would not be inaugurated caused jubilation...
...plenty of factions have expressed an interest in the outcome of the election. Each of the three branches of Ukraine’s government has jumped headlong into the quagmire: the Parliament passed a series of non-binding resolutions declaring the election invalid, outgoing President Leonid Kuchma has endorsed a new vote, and the Supreme Court this week is hearing Yushchenko’s challenges. The international community, too, is weighing in, with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government endorsing the election results and several diplomats from the European Union expressing implicit support for the Western-leaning Yushchenko...
...this year. UHS, with its roughly 8,400 doses of the vaccine, announced that it will not vaccinate otherwise healthy students in the foreseeable future. No doubt, healthy Harvardians will survive the flu, and it is perfectly reasonable that no young adult be vaccinated until each elder, infant, and invalid has been protected—groups for whom the flu could be a death sentence...
...final tally, which some thought came after the buzzer sounded, was declared invalid at first by one of the referees on the side of the pool, and the Crimson thought it would get a chance to win in overtime. But after consulting for several moments, the two officials decided the goal would count, robbing Harvard of its first big-game win this season...
...legal drama swirling around Fischer. After 12 years on the run from charges that he broke U.S. trade regulations, the 61-year-old chess genius is fighting attempts to deport him back to the U.S. after Japanese immigration authorities apprehended him on July 13 for traveling on an allegedly invalid passport. That collaring brought to a close one of the most famous (if not particularly intense) manhunts in recent American history...