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Zimbabwe was holding its breath as the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (M.D.C.) declared it had defeated President Robert Mugabe in this weekend's general election. Holding its breath because elections in Zimbabwe are not normal elections. By the time initial official results were announced in an early morning broadcast on Monday, the Electoral Commission said the parliamentary seats that had been counted so far were split between the M.D.C. and Mugabe's ruling party. The M.D.C. are claiming that they're leading with 60% of the votes compared to 30% for Mugabe. Reporters were told by the M.D.C...
...morning this month, the villagers of Nemanwa in southern Zimbabwe emerged from their homes to a scene they never thought they'd see. A man wearing a shirt stitched with a bright yellow sunflower stood on a weed-strewn football pitch and began lambasting President Robert Mugabe, the man who has ruled the country for 28 years. At first, the villagers looked on nervously. Then they began to gather and listen. Zimbabwe's descent from food exporter to malnutrition was an "abomination," said the stranger as the crowd murmured its approval. The clique around the President had stolen the country...
...University of California, Berkeley, professor Alexander Farrell, whose 2006 Science article calculating the emissions reductions of various ethanols used to be considered the definitive analysis. The experts haven't given up on biofuels; they're calling for better biofuels that won't trigger massive carbon releases by displacing wildland. Robert Watson, the top scientist at the U.K.'s Department for the Environment, recently warned that mandating more biofuel usage--as the European Union is proposing--would be "insane" if it increases greenhouse gases. But the forces that biofuels have unleashed--political, economic, social--may now be too powerful to constrain...
...believe you can cut taxes and bring in more money. Democrats believe you can turn mortgages that people can't afford to pay into ones that they can and it won't cost anyone a cent. Most pathetically, Clinton calls for an "Emergency Working Group" composed of Paul Volcker, Robert Rubin and Alan Greenspan. Let those guys figure it out if they're so smart...
...move comes just over six months after HMC's previous chief, Mohamed A. El-Erian announced he would step down. Robert Kaplan, a former vice chairman at Goldman Sachs and a professor at the Harvard Business School, has acted as interim CEO since January 1 and, the University says, will now serve on HMC's board of directors...