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...university. Other than Shaheen, “nobody on the Democratic bench has the name recognition or political experience to take on Sununu,” Smith said, adding that “the national party will not want to invest a lot of money on an unknown candidate.” But Smith said that winning the general election may be a “difficult challenge” for Shaheen, as it would be “a very close race between two big name people...
...Investigations into these deaths yield hardly any results. Of 114 political murders recorded since 2001 by a special police task force, arrests have been made in just three cases, with no reported convictions. Even if the killers are ever caught and prosecuted, their bosses will almost certainly remain unknown or untouchable. Last month three men were sentenced to life imprisonment for the 2005 murder of a prominent antigraft journalist called Marlene Esperat, shot dead while dining with her children. Rynche Garcia Arcones, 24, Esperat's daughter, felt shortchanged. "We want the mastermind," she told the Philippine Daily Inquirer...
...site. “The cause of the interruptions in both Mather and Winthrop were hardware failure for network devices in both areas,” Supervisor of Residential Computing for FAS Computer Services Erin Nettifee wrote in an e-mail. The specific cause of the hardware failure was unknown. “We have a large network, so devices can fail. We do also have some older network devices, and we are beginning the process of doing a network refresh to address that issue going forward,” Nettifee wrote of the possibility of future Internet access interruptions...
...report also says a Syrian plane delivered a "large quantity" of arms, including surface-to-air missiles, to the ICU in early September. On at least two occasions, Iran supplied the ICU with arms, including a shipment on July 25 of 1,000 machine guns and grenade launchers, an unknown quantity of mines and ammunition, and 45 shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles...
...already seeing works that sold for a few thousand dollars being bought for $50,000, $60,000, $70,000," says artist and Beijing gallery director Zhao Gang. "And right now there's no end in sight." He cites the case of Zeng Fanzhi, until recently a relatively unknown artist. "Two years ago, I was selling his work for $10,000 for a large painting. The other day someone offered $200,000, and he refused...