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...military was emboldened to send in its tanks. Sadly, restoring that faith is looking like a dim prospect. "This election is already well known for having almost every questionable, old politician from the bad old days of corrupt governments," commented the Bangkok Post in an editorial. Corruption appears rife. "We've had a lot of reports of vote-buying," says Montri Kiatkhamjorn, a senior officer for the Election Commission, the poll watchdog, in Isaan. "It seems like it's become the culture of this election already." Montri reckons "maybe 50%" of candidates are buying votes in the region, often using...
...basic laundry etiquette that frightens me time and time again. It seems that most undergrads had never handled a Tide bottle before arriving here in Cambridge; they exhibit the same blatant lack of conscientiousness in laundry rooms across campus. From Thayer to Quincy, Lowell to Cabot, this immaturity is rife at Harvard, and doesn’t seem to end until graduation (if at all). Washers and dryers are in high demand at peak hours, like Sunday afternoon and Thursday night. Students, overwhelmed by pressing commitments, naturally want to load and leave as quickly as possible. So, with all machines...
...team’s 14 total makes from beyond the three-point line. The Friars entered the game shooting just 39 percent from the field and 31 percent from beyond the arc, but went over 58 percent in both categories (14-for-24 from three) on a night rife with exceptional marksmanship on both ends of the floor...
...Luanda are booked months in advance, and monthly rents in the business district are the highest in Africa, ranging from $54 to $108 per sq. ft. ($600 to $1,200 per sq m). Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people live in Luanda's slums, malaria and cholera are rife, and 70% of the population of 16 million subsist below the poverty line. Surveying the forest of cranes on Luanda's skyline, a foreign businessman describes the operating environment as opaque, corrupt and hamstrung by bureaucracy. "It's a nightmare," he says...
...made on the hustings, but he's been nearer the mark with that one. It's not a revolution in Australian campaigning - yet. But more than halfway through the runup to Nov. 24, the Web is harder than ever to ignore. Slicker websites are spruiking policy, online analysis is rife and political parties have YouTube video-sharing channels. Labor, under leader Kevin Rudd, is running sites like kevin07.com.au, where voters can blog views as they buy T shirts, while John Howard has ventured onto YouTube for policy announcements. Ads have debuted online and a swag of politicians have embraced social...