Word: broker
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...conceived. But Lake failed to move Bill Clinton to act quickly against the genocide in the Balkans, and antiwar critics fear that Obama won't have the strength to follow through on his pledge to end the war in Iraq. As for Hillary Clinton, if any American diplomat can broker a regional solution in Iraq between the warring parties so U.S. troops can head home, it is Holbrooke. But Clinton's heavy reliance on political advisers raises questions about whether she can be bold enough with initiatives abroad and entrenched interests at home...
...tells the story of a cousin's property dispute gone bad. His opponent paid a higher bribe to the court, and his cousin landed in jail for trying to get a squatter off his land. But it turned out OK, says Mumtaz. The cousin went through a broker who was a friend of the judge, paid $6500, and was released a month early. Such stories take on a more somber note when criminals and alleged members of the Taliban are involved - such as Timur Shah, sentenced to death for kidnap, rape and murder, who "escaped...
...Mahdi Army in Baghdad and the holy city of Najaf. Then a poorly armed and ill-trained band, Sadr's men were easily routed, but Allawi didn't have the stomach to deliver the coup de grace: he allowed Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the senior Shi'ite cleric, to broker a peace that allowed Sadr to keep his fighters and, more importantly, his freedom...
...looming confrontation between Ethiopia and Eritrea, and its observers endorse corrupt elections from Nigeria to Zimbabwe. Kurt Shillinger of the South African Institute of International Affairs in Johannesburg says despite Tuesday's limited action, other events on the continent point to the AU's weakness. "Having stepped in to broker a solution and end the violence in Kenya, will it apply the same standards to monitoring Zimbabwe's elections (on Saturday)? Or will it wait to be embarrassed by election fraud and the resulting violence? In Kenya, the AU's credibility was on the line, and the problem was just...
...LINE: Long shot. An influence broker on the ticket could hurt McCain's reformist...