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Equally deplorable as Fujimori's ballot-rigging is the president's troubling disregard for the rule of law. Three years ago, Fujimori resorted to suspicious measures when he fired three judges who refused to abrogate a constitutional prohibition against presidents seeking third terms. Fujimori eventually found a constitutional loophole that rendered his bid admissible: His Congress decided that he could run for not one, but two, extra terms since the original amendment that prohibited three terms was written during Fujimori's first term in office. In the area of civil liberties, the government does no better. Trials are swift...
...game marked the 100th anniversary of the first Harvard-B.C. baseball contest, when the Crimson edged out the Eagles 8-7 on April 7, 1900...B.C. is ranked No. 1 in the New England Division I poll as of April 10...The game featured several of the quirky rules of college baseball, including pitchers entering a game twice and the rule which states that a batter cannot run to first on a dropped third strike with a runner on first and less than two out. The latter situation caused confusion amongst the coaches and umpires for a few minutes...
...chillin' on the West Coast in Bakersfield, Calif., gathering up rage motivated by not having dates to awkward high school formals, jealousy towards big jock bullies and their hot cheerleader girlfriends, and tolerating parents that would not let them smoke dope and swear. Their question: when would hate-rock rule again...
...those incidents proved the exception rather than the rule...
...there is just something earnest-looking about those wandering lines and shadings of ink." Some of this apparent earnestness is surely due to the strict laws that still govern letter writing. For all the talk of "netiquette" (which delights Miss Manners), e-mail has yet to succumb to the rule of a similar code: smiley faces and other vulgarities are allowed, and even the most stringent rules of grammar are regularly relaxed...