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...former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif; the two parties traded power three times in eight years before Musharraf put an end to their bickering by overthrowing Sharif in a 1999 coup. Their power-sharing agreement, formed out of a common desire to oust Musharraf, is now riven over how to accomplish that. Musharraf, meanwhile, has been reduced to a largely ceremonial role as President. Says Masood: "The people are disappointed with the leadership and they are losing faith in democracy...
...accurate but also ironic. He says liberals don't like symbolic patriotism, yet much of the support for the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama, is symbolic. Liberals are concerned more with what the mere election of a black President would represent than with what this individual would or could accomplish as President. Rather than finding this inspiring, I feel it smacks of narcissism and naiveté. For America's sake, I hope the voters - and the press - will evaluate the candidates on their qualifications. Carrie Wolfe, Sterling, Virginia...
...international summit on the convention held last week in Bali, Indonesia, environmentalists and many poor countries insisted the agreement had failed, and pointed to the growth in e-waste as a main reason. "We are faced with the ugly truth that the Basel Convention has been unable to accomplish even the prerequisite steps of addressing the inequities and exploitation made possible by globalization," Jim Puckett, director of the Seattle-based Basel Action Network, told delegates at Bali...
What do you hope to accomplish on your trip to Washington...
...think about were their own. How do you effectively control another person's eating behavior? How do you motivate someone--especially a young, impulsive, pleasure-driven someone--to make smart food choices, to get up off the couch, to turn off the television? And how do you accomplish that without making that young person feel deprived, coerced or--worse yet--judged and found wanting? Perhaps most vexing for parents who are themselves veterans of weight-loss wars, how do you credibly persuade a child to take hold of an issue that you may never have been able to control yourself...