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...casting a "yes" vote at the Fouad Galal school on the east bank of the Nile River in Cairo, Diab Abolibda, a 59-year-old engineer, described how in the presidential election two years ago he favored upstart candidate Ayman Nour over Mubarak. Asked how he felt now that runner-up Nour was serving a five-year prison term for election fraud, a verdict and sentence criticized by many democracy advocates as political punishment for brashly challenging the president's authority, Abolibda let out a hearty laugh and exclaimed, "I'm with Mubarak...
...about your friends from the kind of music they put on their playlists, so it's not hard to see why France's political parties take such great care when choosing the official songs for their presidential election campaigns. Take the case, for example, of conservative presidential front-runner Nicolas Sarkozy: the former Interior Minister, Sarkozy faces a major problem with the children of immigrants, many of whom will be voting for the first time in this year's race, after denouncing immigrant rioters as "scum" during nationwide disturbances in 2005. So, his party, the UMP, sought to repair some...
...Miserable vocals, terrible rhythm, rubbish mixing." France's bloggers remain unimpressed with "Mon pays France," a rap offering from the party of conservative front-runner Nicolas Sarkozy...
Last year’s runner-up has given the Crimson loads of trouble in the past. Most recently, it swept Harvard in both team’s Ivy openers last season.The strength of the Big Red lies with its outfield of Jenna Campagnolo, Ashley Wolf, and Meghan Risica. Jenn Meunier and Hayley Mirrer lead a young but talented pitching staff that has several versatile freshmen...
...division structures are the same as baseball’s, putting the Crimson in a division with Yale, Brown, and Dartmouth. Defending champion Princeton, last year’s runner-up Cornell, Columbia, and Penn make up the other division. At the end of the season, the winners of each division will meet in a best-of-three series to determine the league champion and winner of its NCAA berth...