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...support after the first vote is disqualified, and his or her supporters are forced to pick their second choice. "I think it's a pretty good form of democracy," says Richard Bender, the original architect of the caucuses, who designed them to ensure that minority voices (e.g., anti-Vietnam voices, then) in the party were fairly represented and had a say in electing delegates to the state convention. "The 15% rule some people don't like. If I'm for Candidate X, well, if they only get 4% maybe their chances of making it to the end isn't great...
Chavez, however, may have set himself up for embarrassment. The New Year's debacle capped what has been a dismal few months for the radical, anti-U.S. leader, who controls the hemisphere's largest oil reserves. He started the year seemingly at the height of power, taking office after a landslide reelection and with crude prices breaking records by the day. But in November, during one of Chavez's rants at a summit in Chile, the King of Spain publicly told him to "shut up." That rebuke was followed this month by another from Venezuelans, who in a constitutional...
Kibaki banned live television and radio broadcasts Sunday, and on Monday afternoon, at the height of the crisis, KTN aired children's shows in which smiling children sang "Paddycake, Paddycake." Political activist and anti-corruption campaigner Mwalimu Mati said: "It was really one man swearing in himself and using his presidential appointees to do it. That's the scary bit - our institutions have failed...
...Mehsud denied any involvement in the attack, as he did when he was accused in the October 18 suicide bombing at a Bhutto rally in Karachi that killed some 140. Such denials, of course, are meaningless, but they do exacerbate rumors of government complicity, a situation that benefits an anti-government insurgency. "There is a very strong possibility that the intelligence agencies were behind the attack," Mehsud's spokesman told...
Lahore is a stronghold of opposition leader and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, and is home to plenty of Bhutto supporters as well. In a place that's so heavily anti-Musharraf, innuendo seems to feed on itself. On the city's main street, lined with policemen holding batons and wearing anti-riot gear, two teenagers out for a walk say they have also heard about a possible government connection to the attack but cannot offer any evidence to back up the claims. "My mother told me not to talk about this topic on my mobile or telephone because...