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...easy as it sounds, particularly for the Clintons. These are two people who have defined themselves as tough, resilient, no-surrender fighters -- and who have virtually no recent or even memorable experience with defeat...
...Part 1, our asthmatic hero helps Fidel Castro defeat the Batista forces in the 1958 battle of Las Mercedes; in Part 2, he fails to bring revolution to Bolivia, and pays with his life. Numerous scenes of him instilling military discipline are leavened by occasional celebrity cameos (including an implausible visit from Matt Damon). At the end the viewer is left wondering why the film omitted important elements of Guevara's biography - his supervising of hundreds of executions in the first year of the regime; his break with Castro; his war year in Africa; his wives and children...
...Ahmadinejad's defeat in the Majlis is the latest sign of the ferment within Iran's ruling conservative coalition, which dominates the legislature. Larijani engineered two impressive political victories, first to win a seat in the 290-member assembly, and then to oust a sitting speaker. Prominent politicians and clerical figures have begun distancing themselves from Ahmadinejad and rallying around Larijani. The shift reflects the fact that Ahmadinejad has alienated many in his own conservative camp with an arrogant personal style and erratic economic and foreign policies. While he still enjoys solid popular support, many Iranians bitterly complain that inflation...
...Larijani becomes a presidential candidate, he is likely to use his high-profile post as parliamentary speaker to question Ahmadinejad's policies and offer alternatives. That, along with Khamenei's ambivalence about Ahmadinejad's political future, could weaken the incumbent's authority and prepare the ground for his defeat at the polls next summer...
...life. Democrats ran the White House and Congress, and the congressional leadership was more liberal than ever before. But Carter's win was an anomaly in a nation that was at the time moving rightward. Carter had eked out a paper-thin victory only because of Watergate, stagflation and defeat in Vietnam. McCain might win a narrow victory this year by running away from his party, but conservatism is fading now as liberalism was fading in the '70s. Not even winning this year's presidential race will be enough to revive it-unless, as President, McCain refashions conservatism...