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Surrounded by campaign staffers sporting colorful costumes, a recent Harvard graduate running for state representative held an event in Harvard Square on Sunday to round up more supporters before tomorrow’s voter registration deadline...
Even without such threats, Karzai would win a first-round majority of 51% in a fair and free race, say international poll observers. Karzai is considered one of the few candidates who don't have blood on their hands from the bitter 1992-96 civil war. (Massouda Jalal, a plainspoken doctor and the sole woman in the field, is another.) Nor is Karzai pushing the interests of his fellow Pashtuns ahead of other ethnic groups. Pragmatic Afghans realize that foreign aid, which totaled $2.3 billion this year, might dry up if Karzai, who is well respected in the West, were...
Alarmed by the possibility that Karzai might not win in the first round (experts say he would win a runoff against any single candidate), the President's supporters--including the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad--are scrambling to shore up votes. Senior Afghan officials, U.N. representatives and Western diplomats all claim that Khalilzad, an energetic Afghan American, is trying to induce several candidates--including the President's main rival, Qanooni--to drop out and throw their support behind Karzai. The ambassador denies that, even though one candidate, Mohammed Mohaqiq, went public with such an accusation. Khalilzad and Karzai dine...
Near the middle of a three-hour round table on globalization that touched on innovation in medieval China, the impact of Sept. 11 on graduate engineering programs and India's market for software, New York University professor WILLIAM BAUMOL offered a much needed reality check: "The fundamental issue that we're losing in this discussion is, Is outsourcing bad for America? Is globalization good or bad for America?" Baumol, along with his fellow panelists on TIME's Board of Economists--RON HIRA of the Rochester Institute of Technology, CATHERINE MANN of the Institute for International Economics and MATTHEW SLAUGHTER...
Last Friday night in St. Louis, George W. Bush and John Kerry swapped a predictable round of punches on issues ranging from Iraq to health care to jobs, as each candidate desperately sought to land that single, memorable haymaker that voters will replay in their heads on November 2nd. For my money, however, that defining moment came a week earlier in Miami, during the first debate - and it was a knockout blow for Kerry...