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Zimbabwe’s presidential election is three weeks away. The European Union has imposed travel restrictions on Zimbabwe’s president, Robert G. Mugabe, and frozen his European assets after he expelled the head European election monitor two weeks ago. The rest of the European monitors have since departed. However, forty election monitors from the British Commonwealth countries (except for the U.K. itself) remain in Zimbabwe, despite the departure of the Europeans...
...mission of a peacekeeper is to prevent violence and the mission of an aid worker is to distribute food and medicine. But the mission of a monitor is different because the sole duty of a monitor is to make judgments. An election monitor decides whether or not the election is fair. A weapons inspector certifies that no illicit weapons exist. When a peacekeeper does a bad job, he still manages to prevent some violence. But when an election monitor does his job poorly or a weapons inspector fails to find the weapons, the situation can become worse. We now risk...
HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano confirmed that at least one offcer would be stationed at tonight’s show—but would not comment on the exact number of officers assigned to monitor Club Night...
...users and profited by failing to do so. The owners of Morpheus, Grokster and Kazaa, on the other hand, are expected to argue that since they don't use a Napster-like central server--even the indexing software is distributed among users--it is impossible for them to monitor the activities of the millions of people who use their programs...
...ordinary citizens until his 7 p.m. lunch, naps until midnight and then puts in another day's work at the office until dawn prayers. Though devout, if he's a zealot about anything it's TV news: his office has a bank of 33 television sets so he can monitor all available satellite channels at once. In contrast to more remote royals, Abdullah has become a populist prince, touring the country and even munching burgers in fast-food restaurants. Says Wyche Fowler, American ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 1996 to 2001: "His leadership is essential at this particular time...