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...week after Pakistan forced President Pervez Musharraf from office, its fragile five-month-old coalition government broke apart on Aug. 25, as its two main parties fought over the issue of reinstating a group of judges Musharraf had dismissed. The parties are lobbying for support from other factions in the government in advance of presidential elections scheduled for Sept...
Oppostion leader Anwar Ibrahim won a seat in Parliament on Aug. 26 by a landslide, cementing his political comeback after spending six years in jail on a sodomy conviction that was later overturned. The former Deputy Prime Minister aims to form a new ruling coalition but must face trial on further sodomy charges, which he says were concocted by the government...
President Robert Mugabe reopened Zimbabwe's Parliament on Aug. 26 to the jeers and chants of opposition members reveling in the election of their candidate, Lovemore Moyo, to the key post of Parliament speaker and their first (razor-thin) plurality since Mugabe took power in 1980. In an attempt to reassert control over the poverty-stricken nation, Mugabe announced he would form a new government without the opposition party led by Morgan Tsvangirai, who bested the despot in March elections but sat out a June runoff vote, citing violent intimidation of his supporters. Power-sharing talks between the two parties...
...SELIG, commissioner of Major League Baseball, insisting that the sport's new instant-replay system--which took effect on Aug. 28--will not be used for purposes other than to review disputed home runs...
...last of the summer vacations are memories, and most of America's 55 million schoolchildren have shouldered their backpacks like draft horses shrugging into harness. You wonder why the littler ones--like these kindergartners in Carlsbad, Calif., who started Aug. 18--don't topple over backward. (Are they cantilevered?) And what the heck do those teenagers have to be so moody about? Chillax...