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...Kibaki's strongholds. When the final result was announced, Kibaki, 76, had squeaked through with a victory of just 232,000 votes over Odinga, 62. Kibaki was sworn in about an hour later in a hasty ceremony. His first act in office was to ban live television and radio broadcasts. The European Union has raised "concerns about the accuracy of the final results." The U.S. embassy in Nairobi said there were "serious problems experienced during the vote-counting process." Most damaging, five members of Kenya's Electoral Commission - which Kibaki had tried to pack with loyalists - have come forward...
...wanted to react to the announcement of French culture's extinction, rather than simply revel in the silence of the tomb into which you had hurled us. For the whole month of December, outrage poured out everywhere: in the papers, on the radio, on television and at dinner tables. A few amiable traitors confirmed your hypothesis, and accused the French state and its "official culture" of having encouraged this death. They did so out of pique, or - and in this they were not wrong - out of admiration for American creativity. For a few weeks, every argument was thrown into...
...UNESCO agreement signed in Paris in 2005 by more than 140 countries from all over the world. That is one way in which we can justify the strong, protective measures we have taken for the past 20 years, such as quotas for air-time for French songs on the radio, or advances against box-office receipts for movie producers. Such measures have enabled us to maintain a good share of our own domestic market...
...Wednesday night appearance on the Tonight Show, even though Jay Leno's studios are located more than 1,500 miles away, as the crow flies. It's a strategy that takes sober account of the fact that Romney has a huge advantage in paid advertising on television, radio and person-to-person contact...
Kibaki banned live television and radio broadcasts Sunday, and on Monday afternoon, at the height of the crisis, KTN aired children's shows in which smiling children sang "Paddycake, Paddycake." Political activist and anti-corruption campaigner Mwalimu Mati said: "It was really one man swearing in himself and using his presidential appointees to do it. That's the scary bit - our institutions have failed...