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...That latter scenario is what Sheikh Usman Rishad, a 25-year-old blanket, pillow and mattress manufacturer, is hoping for. The former Musharraf supporter was up all last night decorating his 2006 Mitsubishi Lancer in honor of Sharif's election symbol, the tiger. He glued fuzzy cream blanket material over the midnight blue exterior, and painstakingly painted it with tiger stripes. The windows and bumpers are trimmed with black feather boas. "I decided to do this for my leader," he said of his masterpiece. "Sharif is going the right way for Pakistan." Musharraf, he says, brought Pakistan suicide bombers...
...headscarf ban, and over 400 members of Turkey’s 550-member parliament voted for its repeal. Maintaining the ban despite such opposition would only foster further resentment against the government and its secular policies. The past generation has witnessed the ferocious backlash that can result against a blanket secularism imposed tactlessly, most notably in the streets of Tehran in 1979. Removing this prohibition would prevent the disintegration of the balance between secular and fundamentalist interests that has existed in Turkey since it became a republic...
...himself with loyal members of the movement. Before addressing CPAC, he was introduced first by former Virginia Sen. George Allen, a darling of many conservatives, and Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn, who is known as an ideological purist on Capitol Hill. "He doesn't have a secret plan to enact blanket amnesty as President," Coburn told the crowd, about McCain's plans on immigration. "And if he did he knows I'd kill...
...sets a precedent not just across the 27-nation European Union, but throughout the 47-member Council of Europe. Gay and lesbian groups say it opens the way for legal challenges in other European states with adoption laws similar to those of France - yet falls well short of a blanket ruling that would oblige all countries to allow adoption by homosexuals...
...short on cash to blanket local television with ads, Huckabee also suffered from a self-inflicted wound - the decision to put up a fight in last Tuesday's Michigan primary. "Had we had a couple more days here, we would have definitely won, no ifs, ands, or buts about it," said Beasley. Instead, while Thompson camped out in South Carolina, Huckabee spent nearly four days after the New Hampshire primary traveling through Michigan, where he finished a distant third...