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JERUSALEM: As Israelis cast their ballots in the nation's most important election in decades, local exit polls showed Prime Minister Shimon Peres with the narrowest of leads over Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu. The polls, conducted by Israeli television stations, showed Peres leading by just one-to-four percent, which means the outcome cannot yet be predicted. At stake is Israel's course toward peace, pursued aggressively by both Peres and his Labor Party predecessor, Yitzak Rabin, who was assassinated last November by right-wing rabbinical student Yigal Amir. Netanyahu has come grudgingly to accept the accords granting...
Voters don't cast ballots because of a single speech--or a change in wardrobe--but a speech can make people sit up and take notice, give a guy another chance. That's what Dole's speech accomplished, at least with fellow Republicans and Washington pundits who were already planning their post-November career moves. But when voters give Dole another look, they must see more than a quick-change artist. Dole's defining moment will instantly become a nonevent if he does not live up to his rhetoric. "Once we had a 73-year-old majority leader with...
...times in free parliamentary and presidential votes and three times in national referendums, democratic habits of thought and behavior remain far from established in Russia. The voters still tend to view elections as onerous rituals that are likely to bring new troubles upon them. Tens of millions will probably cast their ballots with the hope of electing a strong leader who might limit or revoke the right to vote itself. They would consider it a small price to pay to end the chaos they believe has resulted from the country's latest experiment with democracy...
More than 300 million Indians stood in line to cast their ballot in the general elections held from April 27 to May 7. Now that virtually all their votes have been counted, it is clear enough what most Indians were against: the Congress Party, the political juggernaut of Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru that has ruled India for all but four years since 1947, when the country gained independence from Britain. Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao is out, and the party, burdened with an image of corruption and lassitude, lost almost half its seats in the Lok Sabha, the lower...
...asking price has soared, so has his involvement. Grisham had approval of script, director and cast during the making of A Time to Kill (while grumping about Universal's unapproved adaptation of The Chamber, due this fall). He is co-writing the screenplay for The Rainmaker with director Francis Coppola. By the time Grisham finishes his eighth novel, he could call it Showgirls II and still name his terms...