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...field of seven candidates, Ahmadinejad won about 19% of the popular vote, nowhere near the more than 50% needed to become President outright. But the favorite, the pragmatic Ayatullah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 70, won only 21%, hence this Friday's runoff vote between the two. The reformers on last week's ballot, supporters of the policies of outgoing President Mohammed Khatami, were badly trounced and now see in Ahmadinejad's smiling face a stealth campaign by Iran's conservative ruling ayatullahs to take the presidency, denying it even to Rafsanjani, who has his fair share of hard-line credentials...
...surreal nursing home where, in the opening scene, chorus members wear prairie bonnets and cowboy hats. The repertoire includes Every Breath You Take by the Police, Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven and Bob Dylan's Forever Young. The audience's emotions are constantly shifting from tears to outright guffaws, which is in part what makes the experience so moving...
...first round of the BSA presidential elections last April, Adjah and Zachary D. Raynor ’05 tied with 63 votes apiece. But an outgoing board member claimed that his fellow officers had improperly counted ballots to prevent Raynor from winning outright. Mired in controversy, the group held two more votes—both of which yielded wide margins in Adjah’s favor...
...some ways the year was notable...for the questions that remain unanswered,” he writes, adding that no file sharing lawsuit has yet gone to court because each case has ended in a settlement and that “publishers have refrained from outright suing universities or commercial internet service providers for ‘contributory’ copyright infringement arising from the activities taking place on their networks...
...since Yale had the momentum going into the line, it was given the Case Cup that was granted the winner. The Bulldogs won the 2V and varsity four race outright...