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...outcome of Malaysia's general election on Saturday was expected to be the usual landslide for the country's ruling political bloc. After all, for as long as the Southeast Asian nation has been independent, the National Front alliance has been in power. Even opposition leaders admitted they wouldn't win control of the federal government. Instead, most viewed the voting as a referendum on the leadership of Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, whose popularity has been hurt by higher living costs and rising racial tensions in this multiethnic nation...
...Harvard Bulgarian Club (HBC) joined with an unusual partner yesterday to publicly launch a photo exhibit on the nation of Bulgaria...
...private property rights and the good of the community.In the 1970s, Austin was still a sleepy liberal enclave in the middle of ultra-red Texas. The movie starts at the beginning of Austin’s boom and traces its transformation into the sixteenth-largest city in the nation with the third-highest growth rate from 2000 to 2006. In a brilliant move, the first part of the film seduces the viewer with Austin’s appeal—Willie Nelson, cowboys, and democrats—while the second half outlines the city’s problems of over...
...elected officials, we will." "It's kind of scary," says Julie Beth Lamb, an Oakdale, California, parent who, with no teaching credentials, has taught her four children for 15 years. "If that ruling is held up, this would make us one of the most restrictive states in the nation...
...major international agreement, you worked on it for 24 years - that just confirms in people's mind our reputation as a really lousy international partner," said Norman Neureiter, who has had key roles in Washington's science and technology policy for over 40 years. "For the leading scientific nation in the world to have a reputation like that is really destructive in my view...