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...Fonseka, once a key ally in Rajapaksa's military victory against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, told reporters that he refused to accept the results. He wrote to the elections commissioner, Dayananda Dissanyake, requesting him not to release the final tally until legal proceedings initiated to challenge the results were concluded. That request was ignored, and officials announced the results Wednesday afternoon. (See the top 10 magazine covers...
...lucky few diners, one should say. Eight thousand people get reservations at elBulli each year, a mere fraction of the million who request them. (The restaurant is open only about half the year.) Indeed, despite its 230-euro price tag, dinner at every table for the six months that the restaurant is open is assigned in a single day. And now that it's clear that this year's reservations lottery may well be elBulli's penultimate, the number of gourmands clamoring to get in will surely grow. (Is elBulli's creation food...
According to a recent Boston Globe article, the cadets at the Randolph Regional Police Training Academy had invited Crowley to speak at their upcoming graduation ceremony in April. But according to Crowley's brother Daniel, the idea was vetoed by state officials at the request of Mass. Governor Deval L. Patrick '78 because Crowley would be too controversial...
Tomorrow, we'll start with a list of some quirky courses we dug up in the catalog. For the rest of the week, if you want to request a theme for a list, suggest a course to spotlight, or share something cool that happened in one of the classes you shopped, e-mail us at flyby@thecrimson.com. Or give us a holler in the comments...
...crime in popular culture. In September, a blockbuster film that dramatized the murder, The Case of the Itaewon Homicide, swept South Korea. That same month, a South Korean television crew discovered Patterson was living in Sunnyvale after the U.S. government failed to locate him following a 2005 request for judicial assistance from Seoul. "After we concluded that [the television crew's] finding was true, we decided to reopen the case," says Oh Se In, a Seoul city prosecutor acting as a spokesman for the case. Lee, the other defendant in the trial who has always maintained his innocence, says...