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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...
...diplomatic community burst to the surface last week when the top U.N. official, Norwegian Kai Eide, ordered his American deputy Peter Galbraith home. According to Western diplomats, Galbraith wanted a probe into all fraud allegations while Eide urges an easing of the definition of fraud to avert a second-round vote...
...matter what your record is or how poorly you have done since then, you always have a shot at winning it,” Biega said. “We were close [to winning] but close doesn’t cut it.” For the second-round of the Beanpot against BC, Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91 made a switch in net to give sophomore Ryan Carroll his first collegiate start. The gamble paid off for the team—Carroll made 42 saves in that game and contributed to the Crimson?...
...Four Crimson golfers made it into the top-10, led by third-place individual finisher junior Claire Sheldon, who shot a third-round 75 to finish nine-over par for the 54-hole three-day tournament. Senior Emily Balmert, freshman Christine Cho, and senior Ali Bode all joined her in the top-10.Harvard jumped out to an early lead Friday and Saturday, as its first-round score of 306 and second-round 295 were both tops in the seven-squad field.“We really stressed the importance of playing a complete 18 holes and not getting too concerned with...
...Crimson is victorious against the Big Red, it will most likely face a very challenging second-round date with Yale, Princeton, or Trinity, all teams that Harvard fell to earlier in the season...