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...Violence in Congo Election tallies bring bloodshed Results of Congo's presidential vote on July 30 were announced: no winner. The two months until the Oct. 29 runoff will be tense--23 have already died in fighting among the two finalists' backers...
Then Tierney announced the hotly anticipated results of the Next Big One contest. There were some outliers. One person predicted that a gamma-ray flare would kill 90% of the earth's species. That is what is known in the disaster community as a hilarious joke. But the winner, with 32% of the votes, was once again a hurricane. After all, eight of the 10 costliest disasters in U.S. history have been hurricanes. This time, most of the hurricane voters predicted that the storm would devastate the East Coast, including New York City. History has left us all the clues...
Congo's Vote Tally A new risk of bloodshed A preliminary tally from Congo's July 30 presidential election is expected by Aug. 20. But many have vowed to take up arms if a winner is declared without a runoff, which they want in October...
...Tour de France winner Floyd Landis is now claiming that he tested positive for steroids because he had 'accidentally ingested testosterone from another source.' Apparently, Landis accidentally ate Barry Bonds." CONAN O'BRIEN...
...irregularities have prompted many parties to claim victory for their candidates even before preliminary results are known. The claims and counterclaims are adding to the chaos. "Biased leaflets proclaiming one candidate or another as winner are being distributed or even sold," Theophile Mbemba Fundu, the interior minister, said last weekend. The aim of parties was to "engender a psychosis of fear in order to trick the population into contesting the results...