Word: roundings
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Days later, the IEC discovered that sticking to its published safeguards would exclude enough fraudulent Karzai ballots to keep his total below 50%. This would lead to a second-round runoff, which Karzai desperately hoped to avoid. The IEC reconvened and voted 6 to 1 to drop safeguards, explaining that the commissioners had just read the Afghan election law and discovered that they had no authority to throw out fraudulent votes. This novel and inventive reading of the law did not convince many Afghans. My boss, however, sided with Karzai, and I was ordered to drop the matter. Four days...
...weekend, and midterms are upon us. FlyBy thinks it's time for another round of Around the Ivies...
...been blogged, reblogged, and re-reblogged ad infinitum over the last few weeks. It appeared in newspapers and magazines from “The New York Times” to “Entertainment Weekly,” and “Gawker” posted its first round of coverage at 1:19 a.m—a smooth turn-around on the 12:40 a.m. event. But should one phoneme make that much of a difference...
Advice to Harvard students?: “If they want to be bankers, and lawyers, and captains of industry, the most important lesson they could possibly learn is how to do a round...
...After decades of both intense anti-bullfighting activism and benign neglect (Las Arenas hasn't hosted a bullfight since 1990), Catalonia may become the first of Spain's autonomous regions to officially ban the sport. At the end of October, the Catalan parliament will begin the first round of voting on a popular initiative that seeks to outlaw bullfighting completely - and establish one more difference between the region and the rest of Spain. If the initiative survives the vote, lawmakers can propose amendments before a final vote is held, probably by end of year. (See pictures of bullfighting...