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...impressive resume—let alone two in the same season—and the pundits are starting to take notice. The Big Red received 38 points in the most recent ESPN/USA Today poll, placing it at 27th in the nation. The Crimson has received a top-25 vote in the AP Poll for three consecutive weeks...
...basic assumptions about what living in America should be like for millions of its citizens. For decades, governments at every level have created one set of rules for heterosexuals in America, and another set for its gays and lesbians. What the challenge to Prop 8 - California's 2008 vote to change its constitution to ban gay marriage - is all about is gathering hard evidence about the roots of that uneven playing field. Both sides see it as a crucial test of whether society can insist that heterosexual unions are worthy of the full sanction...
...country's first election since the end of its 26-year civil war. Upending predictions that the contest would be a close fight, Rajapaksa easily beat his challenger, General Sarath Fonseka - a former ally in Sri Lanka's military victory over the separatist Tamil Tigers - with 57.9% of the vote. Though he was hailed by many members of Sri Lanka's ethnic Sinhalese majority for emerging victorious from the decades-long conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Rajapaksa's reputation was dented by international criticism of his headlong rush into the war's final battle. Dismissing calls...
...There is no democracy. This government is behaving like murderers." - Sarath Fonseka, Rajapaksa's challenger in the 2010 election, after the election results were announced. He immediately rejected the results, alleging vote rigging, and claimed his life was under threat from the government (TIME...
...government denied that it was harassing Fonseka, his family or his aides, and claimed the election result as a vote of confidence in Rajapaksa. "It is a clear victory for the people; the people have made it clear who they prefer," Susil Premjayanth, a minister and the general secretary of the ruling United People's Freedom Alliance told TIME...