Word: procession
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...declare incumbent Hamid Karzai the winner by default. But it's by no means an unalloyed victory for Karzai. Allegations of fraud in the Aug. 20 vote, coupled with long-standing concerns over corruption in his administration, have undermined his credibility. Abdullah, Karzai's closest challenger, said the election process was so flawed that it wasn't worth participating in. He later said he had no intention of joining a coalition with Karzai, calling his re-election "illegal" and adding that his "government cannot bring legitimacy, cannot fight corruption...
...topics relating to quantum mechanics. “It kept me awake at night, thinking really hard and hoping that I might be able to figure these things out,” he said of the theories discussed in the class. The piece, which he is still in the process of writing, is the musical articulation of wave-like shapes that Einziger drew inspired by diagrams of the relationships between space and time...
...Shea, though, and other members of the Hopkins community, the entire process was tiring...
...continues the athletic selection process, ending with professional leagues and the Olympics...
Clinton's first trip to Pakistan as First Lady in 1995 had been a transformative experience for her - the beginning, I believe, of the process that made her a plausible candidate for Secretary of State. I traveled with her on that trip; when we set off, she seemed depressed and even more private than usual. The Democrats had cratered in the 1994 congressional elections, and she had been trounced in her efforts to enact a universal health care plan. It was a very personal defeat; as Clinton traveled the country trying to sell the plan, crowds shouted her down...