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Shervin Malekzadeh, a Ph.D. candidate in government at Georgetown University, was recently in Iran.
The original version of this article incorrectly stated that Barack Obama was the first Democratic presidential candidate to win Florida since FDR. He was in fact the first Democrat from the northern U.S. to win the Sunshine State since FDR.
"Because it's evident to anyone paying attention that this entire campaign has been marred by manipulation, cheating and now fraud, it's difficult not to interpret the benevolent silence from France as approving that process and outcome," says Marc Ona Essangui, a Libreville-based environmental activist and opponent of...
"He is a miserable candidate. He is wooden, he is stiff, he can't improvise. His image is that he is not a very decisive leader, somebody who's not so charismatic, not so strong-willed." - Jeff Kingston, Temple University Director of Asian Studies. (AP, Aug. 27, 2009)
The solution favored by the White House is to pressure Karzai into installing a powerful second in command: a Prime Minister who would run the government's day-to-day functions. Abdullah himself is a possible candidate, as is another presidential contender, former World Bank official Ashraf Ghani, who is...