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...House with the greatest survey participation. “If there’s sugar involved, people do it,” said HUDS spokeswoman Jami M. Snyder. Cabot House, with 89 percent participation, bagged the prize for the second straight semester. Last year’s runner-up, Leverett, placed second again with 57 percent, tying Quincy House. Cabot’s victory this fall came in the wake of a scandal-tainted win last spring, when a group of ingenious, ice cream-craving Cabot residents manipulated the online system to achieve a miraculous 105 percent participation by voting...
...stealing millions from Haiti's treasury and telephone company. (Aristide's lawyers deny the charges.) Aristide had been restored in 1994 after the intervention of 20,000 U.S. soldiers; his close associate Ren Prval, a former President who served between the two terms of Aristide, is the front runner in the current race. Washington continues to exert influence, if in a less militant way. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited Haiti last fall to nudge elections forward. They have been postponed at least four times, thanks to electoral incompetence, lack of security and the country's systemic chaos. There...
...immigration went back to the drawing board. "One day Bush was our mejor amigo, and the next he wouldn't take our phone calls," says a former Fox aide. Now the distinctly anti-U.S. former mayor of Mexico City, Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador, is the front runner for the July 2 presidential election. Being a friend of America has become a political liability...
...that sold off state-owned companies and review the lucrative tax-stability contracts that have been luring foreign investors. After Morales' victory, Humala last week scored 23% in a respected poll for April's presidential election--a 10-point bounce that brings him within 3 points of the front runner...
...loud. But his visions are darker. He sees dead people, and they're not your typical brand of horror-movie phantoms either. They're the victims of his brutal killings 50 years ago during the Korean War. Days at Yohan's home may be filled with recycled Road Runner gags, but nights are a constant replay of the Ghosts of War Crimes Past...