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...Lieberman, a seasoned Democratic senator, deserve to be replaced by a political novice simply over his divergence on one issue? The voters of Connecticut apparently didn’t think so. And even those who did support Lamont in his Senate bid must be cringing at the sheer waste of time and resources that took place during the Connecticut Senate elections...
Hugo Chavez is back on the warpath. Venezuela's radical left-wing President took a humbling hit at the United Nations this month when his archenemy, the Bush Administration, blocked his bid for a Security Council seat - a prize for which he'd lobbied all over the world. Now, Chavez plans to get his revolutionary groove back, not just by winning re-election on December 3, but by destroying his U.S.-backed rival, Manuel Rosales, with a massive landslide...
...trip to Ankara, Ephesus and Istanbul was aimed at "dialogue, brotherhood and reconciliation." He then heaped praise on Turkey, which he called a "bridge between cultures," and the Turks, whom he described as an open and peace-loving people. He also seemed to reverse his stance on Turkey's bid to join the European Union. Just two years ago, while Cardinal, he said the country's culture and history left it "in permanent contrast to Europe." On board his Alitalia flight, instead, he was pointing out that modern Turkey was founded on secular ideas of the French Constitution. Later...
...portrayal of their faith. Yes, his campaign will bring attention and credibility to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), as the Mormons are formally known, and give them a chance to demystify their theology and customs. But church officials also calculate that Romney's bid to succeed George W. Bush could remind some mainstream Christians just how different Mormonism is from their faith and perhaps expose their flock to more of the sort of discrimination that drove their founders west by handcart and covered wagon into the Great Salt Lake Valley...
...realists, who want to tear up this Administration's failing bid to bring democracy to Iraq and replace it with a strategy for an exit, Gates is a secret ally, an agent of change who rocked the CIA he grew up in by shifting it out of covert action and into open-source programs at the cold war's end--and then became a reformist president of Texas A&M, tossing a beloved football coach and reducing admissions...