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...parliamentary elections. "Allah bless the Prophet and his descendants," cried some fellow mullahs and government officials, in a traditional invocation. With his flowing robe, clerical turban and solemn visage, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei seemed to radiate a sacred otherworldliness, at least in the eyes of his followers, even as he undertook the mundane task of placing a blue card listing his candidate preferences into the slot of a cloth-covered ballot box. "I am grateful to Allah for the blessing of being able to vote," he told assembled reporters. In a rebuke to Washington, which questioned the elections' fairness, Khamenei added...
...Committed to Reform Your story "A Paradise Divided" [dec. 8] fails to portray an accurate account of the situation and events in the Maldives, notwithstanding the fact that your correspondent undertook a lengthy interview with His Excellency President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom. The assertion that the riots in Malé did not appear to "disturb Gayoom's reverie" is highly partial-particularly given the fact that immediately after they happened, he appeared on national television talking about them, and visited the relatives of the prisoner who died. What's more, the gibe about a presidential yacht is a cheap...
Inspired in part by the 1997 death of an undergraduate during a fraternity hazing ritual, Vest also undertook a revitalization of MIT’s undergraduate housing resources and in 2001 instituted a requirement that all MIT first-years live on campus...
...body swayed and danced with the orchestral accompaniment. The BachSoc really came through in this piece with a rich sound and excellent dynamic interpretation throughout. Even with a star soloist on stage, the orchestra excelled as a presence and was undaunted by the difficult task that it undertook. The second movement, Larghetto, deserves special mention for Chuang’s touching melodies, supported by the orchestra’s delicate and appropriate harmonies...
...after Cook and Robertson undertook the study, they decided that it was “just as easy to do the project for a semester as it was to assess it,” Robertson said...