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...able to prove to myself that I’m getting into race shape,” he added. “It was nice to be able to get out there and run a good time and feel good doing...
Even though the College has reduced CEB's budget for the year, CEB's third annual Dinner and a Movie Night may prove to be a "wild rumpus." According to Mee, CEB has rented out all 500 or so seats in the Harvard Square Theater at a discounted rate (on a Thursday, since Fridays and Saturdays are much busier), and the event has been sold out for both years so far. Mee said that CEB will release info next week about when to pick up free tickets from the Harvard Box Office...
...several members of the Texas Forensic Science Commission, including two of his own appointees, to reappoint the board's well-respected chairman, Austin lawyer Sam Bassett. Bassett's departure has resulted in a delay in an important investigation of evidence in a death-penalty case that critics say will prove an innocent man was executed on Perry's watch. (Read 10 stories of wrongfully imprisoned men exonerated by DNA evidence...
...Last week it was announced that Tarana had been elected to the 29-seat Kabul Provincial Council (akin to a U.S. state legislature), winning with the second highest number of votes - 8,404 - out of a field of 524 candidates. "When I competed for Afghan Star, I wanted to prove that a woman from Herat could sing," says Tarana, adjusting her trademark stylish rectangular glasses. "Now that I have been elected to the provincial council, I will prove to people that a lady who can sing can be in politics as well." (See pictures of Afghanistan's TV election...
...despite the darkening state of affairs, a few bright sparks remain. Local elections for Afghanistan's 34 provincial councils, which have been all but overshadowed by the presidential race, have produced results that prove that Afghans not only wholeheartedly support the idea of democracy, but also that they are far more liberal and progressive than the rest of the world might suspect. Tarana, dressed in slim black trousers under a tight black coat accented with a flashy silver headscarf, compares herself with her bearded, conservative predecessors on the council. "Afghans are not like what you hear from other countries, that...