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...things may not be that clear-cut. Voter turnout - around 52%, the highest since 2004 - may have been inflated by the stature of the candidates, according to Ma Ngok, a political scientist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Chan, a chief secretary in the last British colonial administration, remains very popular six years after retiring from government. Meanwhile, Ip is still controversial for aggressively pushing anti-sedition legislation during her tenure as Hong Kong's Secretary for Security. Although Ip also positioned herself as pro-suffrage - she says she simply wishes to avoid a confrontation with Beijing over...
...Gnosall has been battered by tragedy, and, in recent weeks, wounded by the lurid press attention that so often attends it. One British tabloid dubbed it the "village of the doomed"; other accounts darkly suggested the community may be cursed. The reason: six village residents have committed suicide during the past 12 months, a staggering figure in a nation that averages fewer than nine suicides per 100,000 people. Dr. Hynek Pikhart, a professor of statistics and epidemiology at University College, London, estimates the chance of a community Gnosall's size enduring six suicides in a single year...
...sort of contagious depression is to blame for the cluster of suicides, the attention Gnosall has received in the British press is unlikely to help. The community has been "very distressed" by the negative portrayals of Gnosall in the media, says Cynthia Spencer, 64, a clerk to the local parish council. But amidst their grief, villagers are trying to heal. In memory of two of its deceased who used to ride their horses there, the community has christened a local path as "Forresters Lane." As it meanders toward the local cricket club, the dirt track passes a children's playground...
Four days after she was spared the lash but jailed by a Sudanese court for insulting Islam, British schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons received a presidential pardon Monday and was deported from the country. But while her alleged crime - permitting her primary students to name a Teddy bear Mohammad - garnered the Khartoum regime a good deal of international condemnation for its radical justice, the charges against Gibbons and her famous bear were incidental to a larger struggle playing out in Sudan - the manipulation of Islam in the pursuit of personal and political power...
With international outrage growing, two British Muslim parliamentarians, Lord Ahmed and Lady Warsi, traveled to Sudan in the hopes of securing her release. The government was amenable. For one thing, an internal investigation by the Sudanese government apparently revealed Khawad's role. Indeed, many members of the political elite expressed private embarrassment over the affair. As the Britons arrived in Khartoum, Gibbons' release seemed all but assured...