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...Tonight Show with Jay Leno is an unlikely place to launch a bid to become leader of the free world, but the former Tennessee Senator and Law and Order star Fred Thompson isn't the first 2008 presidential candidate to kick off his or her campaign in a non-traditional setting...
...years past, former New York Knick and New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley talked about being a "small-town boy" from Missouri; Gary Hart launched his 1984 bid by describing himself "as the son of Dust Bowl farm parents who never finished high school"; and in the opening paragraph of his announcement in 1974, Jimmy Carter said "I am a farmer, an engineer, a businessman, a planner, a scientist, a governor and a Christian." In this approach, biography is destiny...
...Caribbean coast. (Tehran has also been cultivating an alliance with oil-rich Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez.) And last Wednesday, the Nicaraguan foreign minister returned from Tehran, where he met with the foreign ministers of Syria, Cuba and Iran. There is now speculation that Nicaragua may support Tehran's bid for a seat in the U.N. Security council...
Even a year ago a Supreme Court injunction would have caused barely a pause in Pakistani politics, but everything changed on March 9, when Musharraf attempted to dismiss an increasingly independent Supreme Court chief justice who threatened to derail the general's bid for another term as President. After an enormous show of support from the Pakistani people, and massive rallies by the country's black-suited lawyers, Chief Justice Iftikhan Chaudhry was reinstated on July 20. Since then the feisty Supreme Court has ruled against the current government on several issues, including Sharif's right to return...
...selection process take place next month. If elected, Iran would serve a two-year stint as a temporary member from the Asia region. To date, only Vietnam of the countries in that region has formally announced its candidacy for the post. Whether Nicaragua would support Iran in a bid for the Security Council remains unknown. Attempts to interview the ambassador proved unsuccessful...