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Peru's controversial election process looks set to provoke new street protests in Lima - and a painful decision in Washington. Opposition candidate Alejandro Toledo withdrew late Thursday from the May 28 presidential runoff election against President Alberto Fujimori, after Fujimori's government refused to comply with a call by election monitors to postpone the poll. The monitors of the Organization of American States, with Washington's backing, had expressed grave reservations over irregularities in the first-round ballot - won by Fujimori, but without a sufficient majority to avoid a runoff - and urged postponement in order to resolve problems including candidates...
...third presidential bid even though his constitution only allows two. But Peru's voters didn't play along in Sunday's election, denying Fujimori a majority and forcing him into a runoff against Alejandro Toledo, a liberal economist whose support stood at only 4 percent some four weeks ago. Lima was wracked by protests Monday as Toledo supporters marched on the presidential palace accusing Fujimori of rigging the polls - a charge that may resonate internationally, after the U.S. government last month endorsed a report by the Carter Center alleging that Fujimori's men had "irreparably damaged" prospects for a free...
...Nancy E. Lima '02, co-chair of Girlspot and a member of the BGLTSA, said that the posters' slogans were "pretty moderate" considering the recent homophobic events...
...stressed-out adults and an increase of violence around the world. If that is what happened to the people raised on pleasant fairy tales, what will be the case with Pokemon fanatics? How will obsession with this game affect the generation of the 3rd millennium? ALEX O.R. DE LIMA Sao Paulo, Brazil...
After designing acclaimed structures in Vienna, New York, Frankfurt and Lima, the Pritzker Prize winner will soon take his talent to yet another challenging environment--Cambridge...