Word: serious
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Others claim that on voting day, thousands of ballots were not delivered on time to opposition areas, which allowed Wade to clinch over 50% of the vote and avoid a runoff against Idrissa Seck, 47, once Wade's most loyal lieutenant and now his most bitter rival. Despite noting "serious incidents" and "acts of vandalism against certain political leaders," regional observers declared the election "sufficiently" free and fair. Seck accepted defeat, preferring to begin planning for the next poll in 2012, when he says he'll push for real Sopi (change), co-opting the official slogan of Wade, who will...
High levels of corruption - a perennial scourge of Africa - are also fueling discontent. According to Berlin-based good governance watchdog Transparency International, graft is seen to be a "serious" problem in Senegal. In his victory speech, Wade vowed to target rising levels of corruption - especially that of his adversaries - raising the specter of further political conflict. He also pledged that the majority of Senegalese would have jobs within two years, but failed to outline how he'd achieve that tall task. Back in Dakar, taxi driver Saliou Diouf, 27, pondered an uncertain future: "Next time will be different - until then...
...killing in a high-level double cross. The film, which is basically Rambo with a higher IQ, is best at giving plausible instructions on how to assemble and detonate weapons of movie distraction. Wahlberg, so muscled up he looks as if he's ready to explode, is serious and committed to the action genre. He could be that youngish star movies have been looking for ever since Sly, Arnold, Jean-Claude and Jackie got too old to beat up bad guys...
...village 30 miles south of Peshawar, Pakistan, awoke one morning last month to find their streets littered with pamphlets demanding that they observe Islamic law. Women were instructed to wear all-enveloping burqas and men to grow their beards. Music and television were banned. Then the jihadists really got serious. These days, dawn is often accompanied by the wailing of women as another beheaded corpse is found by the side of the road, a note pinned to the chest claiming that the victim was a spy for either the Americans or the Pakistani government. Beheadings are recorded and sold...
GEORGIA A serious geopolitical fight gets weird, with a Russian ban on Georgian wine and mineral water...