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...weeks to the day after Zimbabwe chose opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai over Mugabe by a margin of 47.9% to 43.2% (the remaining votes also went to opposition candidates) and granted his Movement for Democratic Change (M.D.C.) a parliamentary majority, reports continue to emerge of a vicious, nationwide campaign of intimidation, including the beating, torture and killing of opposition supporters by the security forces and their allied militias, and the arrest of hundreds of others. Journalists are also prime targets. Several foreign correspondents have been arrested for working without accreditation in the past few weeks (Zimbabwe routinely denies accreditation to almost...
...Clinton's paste-on populism changed absolutely nothing. The demographic blocs that had determined the shape of this remarkable campaign remained stolidly in place. Blacks, young people and those with college educations voted for Obama; Clinton won women, the elderly, whites without college educations. Clinton's slim margin of victory in Indiana was provided, appropriately enough, by Republicans, who were 10% of the Democratic-primary electorate and whose votes she carried 54% to 46% - some, perhaps, at the behest of the merry prankster Rush Limbaugh, who had counseled his ditto heads to bring "chaos" to the Democratic electoral process...
...Pulitzer and Nobel prizes and recently received the PEN/Borders Literary Service Award. A new collection of her nonfiction, What Moves at the Margin, is out now. Toni Morrison will now take your questions...
...While more voters than ever before in a Democratic primary this year pegged the economy as their number one issue, an emphasis that traditionally favors Clinton, she lost North Carolina by a decisive 14 point margin and only eked out a two point victory in Indiana. When it was all over, Clinton ended the night no closer to winning the nomination than when she began the day-in fact, she emerged an even bigger mathematical long-shot to taking the lead either in pledged delegates or the popular vote...
...line it was pretty even across the line for at least the first part of the race—everyone got off the line pretty quickly, so we knew it would be a tight race. Rallying for the second race, Radcliffe trounced the MIT boat by a 25.5-second margin. Finishing up the day, the Black and White’s novice four beat two MIT boats. Radcliffe finished with a time of 8:10 and MIT A finished in 8:14. MIT B followed 10 seconds behind. Showing dedication to causes beyond rowing and solidarity with the Radcliffe heavyweight...