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...army, which subsequently denied receiving any such command. Announcing that the President was assuming control of the peace negotiations?which have been led by Wickremesinghe and are being brokered by the Norwegian government?her spokesman said the cease-fire with the LTTE "will stand." Kumaratunga then declared the cessation "invalid" but said, "My commitment to peace is total." Most worryingly, in two addresses to the nation, Kumaratunga declined to elaborate on plans for ending a conflict that has already claimed some 64,000 lives. "People are wondering what the hell she will do next," says Saravanamuttu...
...with the MDC. The aging President may yet be looking for a way out. [an error occurred while processing this directive]Last week the MDC took its case to overturn the 2002 presidential election result to the high court in Harare. The party argued that Mugabe's victory is invalid because the government packed the electoral commission with its supporters, reopened voter registration without telling the MDC and limited the number of polling stations in cities, where the opposition is strongest. But almost nobody expects a Zimbabwean court to rule against Mugabe, and the MDC's real audience will...
...Reverend Canon David Anderson: We consider Gene Robinson's election invalid, null and void. It is illegal, in that it violates the moral standards the church has established and uses for the evaluation of who can be a bishop or even a priest. And the time of basically giving a wink and a nod to some people is not acceptable. When those 62 bishops voted, at that moment there was a shattering of the Episcopal church as we know it. The structural disengagement of the church has begun. The question is what will it look like? What will...
...ability to check e-mail formed the crux of the back-and-forth over Lowell’s list. In order to access e-mail, houseSYSTEM must know a user’s Harvard password. The site asks for it on registration—and currently informs users supplying invalid passwords that the site will lack full functionality...
Suddenly he's everyone's favorite feminist, railing against "stereotype-based beliefs about the allocation of family duties" and "invalid gender stereotypes" in the workplace. The language is Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist's, in his surprising majority opinion last week saying that state governments have to abide by the Family and Medical Leave Act. Rehnquist is better known for his decisions in favor of states' rights and against groups that want protection from discrimination. What got into him? Some theories...