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Morgan Tsvangirai has been this close before. In 2002 he was widely thought to have won Zimbabwe's presidential election, beating the country's tyrannical leader, Robert Mugabe. But according to most independent observers, Mugabe had the results fixed, extending his tenure as Zimbabwe's only ruler since independence in 1980. Now Tsvangirai is trying to avoid being robbed again. Results of the March 29 general election have not yet been announced, but the Zimbabwe Election Commission indicates that his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has seized the parliamentary majority from Mugabe's Zanu-PF. Tsvangirai is sure...
That mood eventually settled on Heston. In the '60s he marched with Martin Luther King Jr., and after Robert Kennedy's death, he called for gun control. But like many young liberals, he aged into conservatism. In the '80s he became a prime spokesman for right-wing causes and in 1998 the president of the National Rifle Association (NRA). At the 2000 NRA convention, he invoked his own Moses, hoisting a rifle above his head and proclaiming that presidential candidate Al Gore could remove the gun only by prying it "from my cold, dead hands...
...chemical spill closed the Science Center at 7 a.m. Thursday morning, according to Faculty of Arts and Sciences spokesperson Robert P. Mitchell. The building was evacuated by the Harvard University Police Department while the incident is being investigated...
...York Times article last year, an unidentified politician commented on Robert Mugabe. As a fellow member of the ruling party, the politician used affectionate words to describe a man once hailed around the world as a savior capable of bringing together diverse interests and races in a united government: “The old man wants to leave a legacy,” the politician said. “He’s in the twilight of his life, and he wants it to be remembered that he left something to Zimbabweans...
...drama “The Wire,” which he called “the greatest television ever,” for melding Finnegans Wake-like sophistication with social engagement. “When is television ever that difficult?” he asked. English professor and director Robert Scanlan called Kushner’s lecture a brilliant play “crafted from beginning to end.” Kushner’s central theme, Scanlan said, was “that reality is sitting there and we as artists have to respond...