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...yesterday, 2,011 undergraduates had voted in the election—a figure paling in comparison to the 3,519 that had entered the polls by the end of the voting period last year. Final voting numbers for the UC presidential elections have only dipped below 3,000 twice since 1997, with the lowest turnout being the 2,462 that went to the polls...
...available by investing in subprime-stressed financial institutions in the West. After all, Abu Dhabi's SWF will reap an 11% annual yield from its Citigroup stake, nearly double the dividend yield currently available to ordinary shareholders. Having been burned once by Blackstone, the Chinese are now twice shy. But other sovereign wealth funds out there are flush with cash - and fortune favors the bold...
...Twice elected and twice disgraced, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto returned from self-imposed exile and was in cahoots with Musharraf in hopes of again becoming Prime Minister. Musharraf even agreed to drop corruption charges against her. But the plan has backfired, and Bhutto is now deriding Musharraf and proclaiming slogans of democracy. The opportunistic Benazir Bhutto doesn't care one hoot about Pakistan. She is only hungry for power. Lochan Bakshi, Edmonton, Canada...
...charged in the conspiracy insist they are innocent. The trial is scheduled for March 2008, and the government has not yet made public its recordings of the defendants' conversations. But as Morgenstern remembers, if you saw the defendants at a strip mall in Jersey, you wouldn't look twice...
...This happened to be the last flight to Madison, so she had to wait until the next morning and be re-routed through Chicago. Eventually, she found her way to Milwaukee, where she decided to cut her losses and take a bus.In the final accounting, she flew over Madison twice and still missed Thanksgiving by six hours—even though she had left Boston on Wednesday.Now, there’s little that could have been done to cheer up Ariadne after such a trip—little except a group of friendly, folk-song-singing Swedes. But none...