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...right to have their names on the ballot this year (one ticket, Omar A. Musa ’08 and Daniel Ross-Rieder ’08, have since dropped out of the race). Given that students are free to sign multiple petitions, this is not a particularly high bar. Nor should it be. The UC Presidential/Vice Presidential race should be open to all who are seriously interested in the position. Aside from it being uncertain whether raising the number of required signatures would deter potential candidates (what’s another couple hours hanging outside a dining hall...
...Despite the economic surge, Kayseri and its region remain deeply conservative. There is only one bar in the city, and it is usually closed. Business leaders plough a portion of their profits back into schools, universities, hospitals and mosques - a form of tithing. Many women wear headscarves. Still, the recent prosperity is lending new texture to Turkey's traditional image as the meeting place of East and West. Celal Hasnalcaci, a local manufacturer of denim jeans for export, prays five times a day but adorns his office walls with photographs of young women striking provocative poses in low-cut jeans...
Whoever did kill Litvinenko wasn't an amateur. British authorities announced last Friday that he had ingested a radioactive toxin, polonium 210, and that police had found traces of it in three locations: a sushi bar where Litvinenko had eaten lunch, a hotel he had visited on the same day and his home. Polonium 210 is so rare and volatile that the assassin would have needed access to a high-security nuclear laboratory to obtain it. Moscow denies that it had anything to do with the death. At a meeting with European officials in Helsinki, Vladimir Putin called the death...
...paper but looked more like a cinder block than a book. It contained acronyms and chemical formulas and footnotes. It radiated dangerous amounts of hype and spoke of a future in which each calendar year would be sold for corporate sponsorship, e.g., the Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar, the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment. It was, in short, like something sent from above to test the good faith and resolve of book lovers everywhere. It was David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest (Little, Brown; 1,079 pages), and people couldn't decide whether it was a towering...
...appearance, noting it was "Chinese territory" and that China claims the "whole of that" state, which it calls Southern Tibet. Beijing has also complained that Delhi is throwing up unfair barriers to investment by snarling Chinese companies in bureaucratic red tape, and chafed at a decision to bar a company linked to the Chinese military from taking up a lucrative air cargo contract, apparently over security concerns. And, of course, China remains a close ally of Pakistan, India's archenemy, a friendship Hu will shore up during talks with President Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad as soon as he leaves India...