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...mayoral race widely seen as a struggle for the soul of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, a secular, high-tech multi-millionaire and ex-paratrooper, defeated Meir Porush, candidate of the city's large, ultra-orthodox Jewish community...
Gaydamak is setting his sights on Jerusalem's secular and less Orthodox Jews. But the Russian faces competition from Nir Barkat, 49, a software multimillionaire and city councilman. They will end up splitting the secular votes, with Barkat scooping up the larger share. Barkat has swung to the right, promising to build more Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem. Gaydamak thinks his only chance is to make inroads among the city's Arab community...
...tend to stay loyal to their parties, and while many may be disgusted with Bhutto for her deal making, they still support the moderate policies of her party. Some simply want to make the best of a bad situation. "This man [Musharraf] is not going to let go." Says Barkat Jafri, a mobile phone vendor in Bhutto's hometown of Larkana. " If she can negotiate a transition to democracy it's a good thing. It may weaken him, and then we can get rid of him as well...
...also led many in Bangladesh's intelligentsia to believe that they too are now being systematically targeted by Islamic radicals because they advocate secularism and tolerance. "How can you have intellectual freedom when you don't know whether you will come home safely in the evening?" asks Abul Barkat, an economist at Dhaka University...
MARRIED. Mukarram Jah Barkat Ali Khan, 45, eighth Nizam (ruler) of the former Indian principality of Hyderabad and heir to what was one of the world's great fortunes; and Helen Simmons, 31, daughter of a retired Australian steel executive and mother of the couple's 15-month-old son Azam; he for the second time, she for the first; in Perth, Australia, where he has a half-million-acre sheep ranch...