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...Whatever happens, Sanford's bizarre tango - coming less than a week after another GOP presidential hopeful, Nevada Senator John Ensign, admitted having an extramarital affair with a staffer - is yet another scandalous blow to his party's family-values image. Democrats, as former President Clinton and more recently former North Carolina Senator John Edwards proved, are hardly immune to these disasters. But Sanford, a conservative Christian, has long portrayed himself as a model family man devoted to his wife of 20 years and their four sons. While he asked for his state's forgiveness, his hypocrisy and that of many...
...humanity, and you rarely get that with an athlete of his caliber. And it shows you how physically gifted he is, how good he is with a racket, that he has been so successful even without this samurai mind-set. Nadal is the opposite in some ways. He can blow a two-set lead, lose match points and still be absolutely confident that he's going...
...pragmatism, of social-democratic aspirations and fiscal conservatism, of commitment to equality and opportunity - needs a radical overhaul. The big question: Can Labour recast itself, delineate a new identity and purpose? Or is this party, like the parrot in the Monty Python sketch, definitely deceased? (Read "European Elections: A Blow to Brown, Boost for Merkel...
...Nairobi-based Somali analyst Abshir Hassan said of Thursday's attack: "It will change a lot on the ground, and it is a major setback to the government to lose this competent Minister." The fall of Sharif's government would represent a double blow, both to prospects for peace in Somalia and to forging a bridge between the Islamic and Western worlds. Sharif was a founder of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), a hard-line Islamic law-and-order collective that briefly ruled Mogadishu for six months in 2006. The ICU succeeded in ejecting the country's warlords from...
...enough, lawlessness on land has spurred more of it at sea, making Somalia not only the world's most failed state and the home of its worst humanitarian crisis but also a center of piracy. The geo-strategic elements of this enduring catastrophe explain why it is watched blow by blow by both the U.S. and al-Qaeda...