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...buying to intimidation inside polling stations - cast a pall over Mubarak?s majority. Repeated cries of foul play raised questions about whether the crucial elections for Egypt?s 454-seat parliament, due to be held in the next two months, would be an honest contest. After most of its monitors were barred from observing Wednesday?s post-election vote count, Egypt?s Independent Committee for Election Monitoring (ICEM) declared: ?No election can be called free, fair and transparent if voters have been denied the right to monitor and scrutinize the process by which their vote is being allocated...
...TIME staff did, however, also see confusion and intimidation. Despite an eleventh-hour agreement to allow independent Egyptian bodies such as the ICEM to monitor voting, TIME encountered Egyptian monitors who claimed to have been blocked from entering some polling stations. ICEM monitor Suleiman Azahiry, 26, said he feared arrest and was ordered to remain 100 yards from a voting station near the village of Tukh, 15 miles north of Cairo. ?They wrote our names down and threatened us,? Azahiri, who acknowledged his opposition to Mubarak?s re-election, told TIME after the incident...
...sporty green Mercedes ML 320 in Geneva, Switzerland. The friend was Michael Wilson, then a vice president of Cotecna, the firm that not only employed Kojo but also won millions of dollars in U.N. contracts, including one, signed within two months after the down payment was made, to monitor the oil-for-food program in Iraq. About the same time Wilson's wife bought a car from the Swiss dealer, Kojo Annan wound up paying $39,000 for his Mercedes, getting $15,000 in help from his dad plus a $6,000 "diplomatic" discount by falsely claiming that his father...
...last week a member of Iran's Parliament asked Saeedlou how he could have received a doctorate from an American university when he was supposedly living in Iran. Saeedlou admitted that Hartford (no relation to the University of Hartford) is an online institution. State education authorities in Oregon who monitor so-called diploma mills have had their eye on for-profit Hartford University, which is registered in the tiny Pacific offshore banking haven of Vanuatu and offers courses leading to undergraduate and graduate degrees that can cost thousands of dollars. Saeedlou's diploma didn't do him much good...
...expects any of these concerns to hold the field back for long. Noninvasive imaging has the potential to radically alter the way physicians diagnose and monitor heart disease. "The whole paradigm for us has been that you don't get that kind of information unless you stick things into people," says Duke University's Douglas. But as cardiac scanners become more powerful and their diagnoses more definitive, sticking probes into people is going to sound less and less like modern medicine--and more like voodoo. --With reporting by Leslie Whitaker/Chicago...