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...public vote on the impeachment. The party is riding high in opinion polls, although it was recently forced to abandon its offices after the media revealed that the rent was partly being paid with illegal campaign donations. Its new headquarters: a dingy warehouse. Eager to halt its slide in the polls, the opposition Grand National Party last week elected a new chairperson: Park Geun Hye, popular daughter of assassinated dictator Park Chung Hee. It has also moved its workers to humble digs: a vacant lot, where they will work in tents and converted shipping containers. During the impeachment, Koreans...
Suffering from a season-high eight-game goal-scoring drought, Cavanagh seemed poised to slide the puck past Danis in Game 1, wristing two solid chances on net while initiating several opportunities in the Brown...
...unimpressive, registering a 13.50 ERA. After reports that his velocity has greatly improved, however, Herrmann appears to have locked up the No. 4 spot in the rotation this season. His performance on Sunday against an excellent offensive team has to make Walsh all the more optimistic that Herrmann can slide into the spot vacated by the graduation of wily veteran Kenon Ronz ’03 and pitch effectively in Ivy League play...
...Laden and his lieutenants remain on the loose, the fate of Afghanistan and its 28 million people will remain inseparable from the security of the U.S. Both American and Afghan officials say that if the U.S. fails to stabilize Afghanistan and establish conditions for democracy, the country could quickly slide into the kind of chaos that bin Laden and his ilk would no doubt love to exploit. "If the U.S. military pulls out," Karzai tells TIME, "al-Qaeda would be back within six months, plotting attacks against America...
Aristide's slide marks the end of another disappointing chapter in Haitian politics. This one began in 1994, when the U.S. intervened to restore Aristide to power after a military coup aborted his first presidency in 1991. With 20,000 troops on the ground, Washington embarked on an effort many Haitians now characterize as a half-baked nation-building program that yielded little more than ill-trained, corruption-prone institutions, like the police force Philippe led in Cap Haitien. The U.S., Philippe says, "is partly responsible for what is happening...