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...Ever since the 2000 Presidential election, G.O.P. officials around the country have argued that Democrats are benefiting from votes cast by those with inadequate identification, felons or persons forging signatures on absentee ballots. Democrats have called this charge a Republican attempt to win elections by suppressing tallies of eligible voters...
...internal strife is often cast as a battle between Hamas and Fatah, but the reality is more complex, involving also clan battles, crime syndicates and old feuds. In the wake of the Mecca agreement that led to the unity talks, those old fissures are widening and new ones forming. Abbas' Sunday meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rubbed a number of senior Fatah people the wrong way. Afterwards, at a meeting of Fatah's Central Committee, according to a Committee member who was in attendance, Abbas was fiercely criticized for "engaging in a public relations stunt" and accused...
...each phrase with purpose and ease, catering to the simplicity in Sophie’s character for which the score calls. Her vocal quality becomes increasingly stunning as she climbs the octaves. Woolf’s acting is also impressive, particularly in her interactions with the rest of the cast...
...organizers. The award’s international focus stemmed from lessons learned in the American government award program, said Jayne M. Iafrate, communications manager for the Ash Institute. “Innovations are happening at all levels of government and we want to make sure that we cast the net as widely as possible,” Iafrate said...
...could resemble the U.S. strategy in El Salvador in the 1980s, when U.S. troops were dispatched to that Central American nation to train its fighting forces but didn't get involved in the conflict themselves. Whatever policy the U.S. eventually endorses, Gates - unlike Rumsfeld - won't have to cast a nervous eye into his own rearview mirror and wonder about how Congress and the press might react to such a change in strategy. "Gates is in great shape," Korb says, "because he wasn't here when these decisions were made...