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...government and that of his predecessor Daniel arap Moi have been dogged by allegations of dirty deals running into hundreds of millions of dollars. Kibaki's former anti-corruption czar John Githongo went into self-imposed exile in Britain in 2005 after he became disillusioned by the President's lack of commitment to fighting graft and faced death threats. The government, he tells TIME, had "abandoned promises to equitably share power and economic opportunity, reform the constitution and fight corruption." Fixing the election result, he says, was "like throwing a match into a fuel drum...
DOOR-TO-DOOR DATA Because of the lack of reliable death and hospital records in Iraq, researchers resorted to individually surveying 9,345 households across the war-torn nation to come up with a snapshot of health that will help make new policy and restore social services...
...pushed back to the next scheduled meeting on Feb. 12 in light of the decision by the Faculty Council, the 18-member governing body of FAS, to cancel the January meeting. FAS Dean Michael D. Smith said he was unconcerned with the delay. “The lack of a Faculty Meeting in January won’t impair our forward progress,” he wrote in an e-mail. “We will be able to get all of our current docket items onto the Feb. agenda.” Professors have already been given the option...
...stories are often told in first-person narrative and lack diversity," agrees Matsuda. But that hasn't been a problem with consumers yet. "Why don't you write a novel and move me?" read one angry schoolgirl's recent online post, in response to a vehement keitai shosetsu detractor. So far, Japan's literary establishment hasn't come up with an answer...
...seeing tremendous excitement and enthusiasm all over the state," New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch said. Chalk it up to high stakes, aggressive organizing, well-known candidates, the lack of an incumbent or weather so unseasonably fine that a voter might feel almost lucky to be waiting in line outside a voting station...