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...House seat in 1994 with no political experience. Financed his campaign with $100,000 of his own money. Served three terms in Congress, where he repeatedly fought spending increases and pork-barrel spending...
...security forces, reportedly using live ammunition, clashed with protesters numbering in the hundreds in the area of the country's parliament in Tehran. At the same time, there were indications that a behind-the-scenes struggle was intensifying in the corridors of power even as the government continued its campaign to quiet the populace through propaganda and entertainment. A resident of the capital, who asked for anonymity, sent TIME the following report...
...alliance with Sufi Muhammad, the hard-line cleric it enlisted to broker peace in the Swat Valley earlier this year, proved equally disastrous. Muhammad's politics were well known: during the 1990s he had waged a campaign of violence for the imposition of an austere form of Islamic law in the Swat Valley, and in late 2001, he led hundreds of young men to fight the U.S. invaders in Afghanistan. He had been imprisoned upon his return, and released last year on the condition that he disavowed militancy...
With political billboards plastered all over the country and campaign ads jamming the airwaves, more than 100 million Indonesians will soon go to the polls to choose their leader for the next five years. The second round of election debates was held on June 23 in Jakarta, this time with the three vice-presidential candidates squaring off for an hour on national television. While the event was designed to create a more lively exchange than usual, the format still resembled a question-and-answer session with little in the way of sparring between candidates. Still, viewers voted by text message...
...year, and inflation is under control. "This election is not like in the U.S., when the mantra was for change," explains Baswedan. "Before you ask for change, you have to be dissatisfied, but if you are happy, you don't want to change." That, he says, is why the campaign of the Democratic Party of Yudhoyono (who is known here as SBY) has "Let's Continue" as its slogan, hoping that more people are content with their lot than they were five years ago. (Read U.S. President Barack Obama's speech to the Muslim world...