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...Pakistani ambassador Maleeha Lodhi are three of the six fall fellows, who were selected by a group of IOP students and administrators. "It's an eclectic, balanced, thoughtful group that in an election year is going to galvanize the students at the institute," IOP director Jim Leach, a former congressman from Iowa, said in an interview. The fellows will spend a semester on campus, during which time they will each lead a study group centered on a specific topic. Nicco A. Mele, the former webmaster for Howard Dean's presidential campaign, will lead a group examining technology in presidential campaigns...
...technical change.' RON PAUL, Texas Congressman, on the formal end of his presidential bid and his new campaign to elect more libertarian-leaning Republicans to public office...
...have simmered in the south since the Philippines was a Spanish colony. Indeed, U.S. troops were first sent to the southern provinces over a century ago to subdue rebellious Moro tribespeople. "You can see civilians working well with the military and supporting [its civic] projects," says Yusop Jikiri, a congressman for Sulu, the province of which Jolo is the capital. "But what happened in the past is still in their hearts. Deep inside, they look at the military as their enemy." Civilian casualties during army ops, not an uncommon occurrence, also undermine public confidence in the authorities. The most recent...
...Congressman Jikiri agrees that any talk of Abu Sayyaf's demise is premature. "How can anyone say they are destroyed when they are still there and are still very active?" he says. "In fact, they have been conducting fresh recruitment." Jikiri is a senior official of the Moro National Liberation Front, a former separatist group that gave up armed struggle in the late 1990s. Its peace deal with the government secured autonomy for some Muslim areas, which the group now governs. Jikiri is skeptical about the Manila-led effort to win local people's trust. "Life in Sulu is still...
...conservative base, which is a little leery of McCain, is more enthusiastic. Some possibilities the two might want to consider as hedges against their shortcomings: McCain could pick Romney or Pawlenty, both of whom have executive experience and relative youth, or perhaps an economic-policy expert like former Ohio Congressman Rob Portman, who served as both budget chief and trade representative for Bush...