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...press is upset that the car companies will not put on their usual splendid displays at the New York International Auto Show. There will not be a big collection of V8 thunder cruisers, women in bikinis to demonstrate the latest models, and wild concept cars which are inordinately attractive but will never be built...
Disaffection - and the ability to express it at the ballot box - is a cornerstone of democracy. If the ANC is in for an upset on polling day, even simply a reduced majority, it will be receiving a lesson learned by revolutionary groups before it. Fatah's loss to Hamas in the 2006 Palestinian elections was a boost for militancy, sure, but also a testament to Hamas's superior social-service delivery. Mugabe's efforts to hold onto power, trying to alter the constitution to allow him everlasting rule, was the spur for the formation of the opposition Movement for Democratic...
...Nick gets mad, you’ll see. That always happens,” Tilt says from the sidelines. “Nick gets really upset and scores all the goals...
...nonchalant, as if its diplomats couldn't be roused to work on a pleasant spring Sunday. In effect, Beijing said, Let's move along, folks - nothing to see here. The Foreign Ministry, in fact, issued a statement calling on other nations not to do or say anything that would upset international "peace and stability" - as if Pyongyang's launch had not already done...
...compete with Princeton.“I think we brought a lot of energy and the result followed [this weekend],” Rosekrans said. “Even though we were expecting to beat Cornell and Columbia, we have a lot of momentum maybe to stage a big upset [next week against Princeton].”—Staff writer Jake I. Fisher can be reached at jifisher@fas.harvard.edu...