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...ballots in 23 of 210 seats in the election staged more than four weeks ago, opposition activists and foreign observers assumed the intention was to rig the results and maintain the power of President Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF party. But the revised result announced on Sunday upheld the historic victory of the Movement for Democratic Change in the parliamentary election, meaning Mugabe's party has lost control of the legislature for the first time in Zimbabwe's 28-year history. Although the results of the balloting for the presidency continue to be withheld, the opposition is clearly feeling...
...pressure from African leaders to resolve the crisis. And although analysts had expected that after the four-week delay, the result would give Mugabe a razor-thin majority, forcing a run-off that the ruling party would then try to win through violent intimidation, the fact that the recount upheld the opposition parliamentary victory may have revised pessimistic expectations. "I think it's going to be very difficult for them to announce anything other than a Tsvangirai win tomorrow," Zimbabwean human rights activist Elinor Sisulu told TIME from South Africa, where she is based. "If they announce...
...Number of calories in a McDonald's Big Mac meal, which includes a burger, fries and soda 130,000 Number of New Yorkers, according to the state health department, who could avoid obesity if chains like McDonald's published calorie counts on their menus, as required by a recently upheld New York City...
...Number of New Yorkers, according to the state health department, who would avoid obesity if chains like McDonald's published calorie counts on their menus, as required by a recently upheld New York City...
...confusion, whether moral, intellectual or spiritual." His prescription: "Teachers and administrators, whether in universities or schools, have the duty and privilege to ensure that students receive instruction in Catholic doctrine and practice. This requires that public witness to the way of Christ, as found in the Gospel and and upheld by the Church's Magisterium [the teaching authority of the Church], shapes all aspects of an institution's life, both inside and outside the classroom...