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...when the returns came in last week, the results were calamitous for Congress, which won only 26 of 232 seats in the state assembly. Moreover, the victor, Muthuvel Karunanidhi, was aligned with the National Front, a coalition of parties formed to defeat Gandhi in the national elections to be held later this year. Meanwhile, the Congress chief minister of another state, Arjun Singh, resigned over charges that he profited from funds misappropriated from a lottery held to benefit child-welfare programs. Observed New Delhi's Statesman: "Things are falling apart for Mr. Gandhi...
...dozen deaths caused by such regimens a decade ago. At that time, the unsupervised diets contained only 300 calories a day and were made of nutritionally deficient hydrolyzed gelatin. Since then, calorie levels have been raised and the products improved. "Now programs invariably use high-quality protein," says Victor Frattali, a nutritionist at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
...three-meter event, Pierce emerged the victor again, this time with a new and improved 251.55 score. Julie Pawlek dove deep for second and Katie Higgins of B.C. grabbed third...
...result, the buoyant sense of new possibilities for the nation that is supposed to accompany a landslide was all but absent. Even the victor, standing before cheering supporters in Houston on election night, seemed mildly subdued after winning the office he has coveted all his political life. "To those who supported me, I will try to be worthy of your trust," he said, "and to those that did not, I will try to earn it, and my hand is out to you, and I want to be your President...
...P.P.P. charges of election fraud this time around, the government is taking special measures to guarantee a fair vote. Judicial officers will supervise polling stations, and are empowered to order the arrest of anyone accused of irregularities. It remains to be seen whether such steps will ensure the victor of an honest mandate after 25 years of intermittent military law and emergency rule...