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...Mexico's midterm elections approached, observers began to wonder whether the domineering Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.) might be successfully challenged for the first time in its 56-year history. Voters fed up with a stagnant economy and continuing official corruption might, some thought, help the opposition National Action Party (P.A.N.) knock the P.R.I. out of the governorships in two northern states, Sonora and Nuevo León. But the P.R.I. did not even wait for the polls to close last week before claiming a sweep of every office worth winning. The victory was tainted by widespread charges of stuffed ballot boxes...
...that no other black person in American history has achieved. This other King’s birthday is a holiday, his name graces boulevards, and a honorary monument is being erected in Washington, D.C. In the meantime, the real, infinitely more complex King sits idly by, buried in the stagnant dust of college libraries lamenting his doppelganger’s decades-long turn in the spotlight...
With the possible exception of a stagnant middle period, which saw no goals and a grand total of six shots, the Golden Gophers dominated the match-up and summarily sent a sluggish Dartmouth squad to the consolation game...
With the possible exception of a stagnant middle period, which saw no goals and a grand total of six shots, the Golden Gophers dominated the match-up and summarily sent a sluggish Dartmouth squad to the consolation game...
...None of this is to imply that those who live in the Middle East?or Asia?want their regions to remain stagnant. A thaw has been achieved between Pakistan and India as they both get enraptured by cricket. But this is not a case of new political revolutions, but rather the rediscovery of old cultural bonds that have overcome postcolonial boundaries. Similarly, China and India are beginning to renew old ties. China's Premier Wen Jiabao has said that his forthcoming visit to New Delhi will be the most important trip of the year. As the political divide between...