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...asked who should replace him. In a field this jammed with candidates, the next Governor could conceivably be a candidate who is the choice of 5% or even less. It's entirely possible that 49% could vote to keep Davis as Governor--he needs more than 50% to defeat the recall--only to see him give up his office to someone who gets a far lower share in the subsequent balloting...
...although Indonesia's currency, the rupiah, held its ground against the greenback, the blast has eroded business sentiment "just when things were turning around," says Thomas Lembong, a former official of the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency who is now a private investor. "Indonesia is especially adept at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory." If the failure of the police to prevent the Marriott bombing is any augury of what is to come, Jakarta may be in for a long, losing season...
That's nonsense. I've always felt that reasonable compromises make sense. Obstruction for the sake of obstruction is the quickest way to political defeat. Real opportunities for progress don't come by very often. When they do, we should seize them...
...capture the capital and the second city, Buchanan, over the past three weeks, leaving hundreds of civilians dead in the ensuing battles. The goal is to create facts on the ground before the peacekeepers arrive - the two rebel groups already control 80 percent of Liberia, and if they can defeat Taylor's forces in the capital before ECOWAS arrives, the peacekeepers' role will simply involve overseeing and guaranteeing the transition to a new government. Some African analysts have even speculated that Nigeria's delay in deploying peacekeepers may be in part to allow the Darwinian logic of the battlefield...
...near. In a taped address to the Iraqi people broadcast on an Arab cable news channel on Tuesday, a man believed to be the fugitive dictator acknowledged the death last week of his sons Uday and Qusay, proclaiming them martyrs in a "jihad" that would ultimately defeat America. But the tape may turn out to be an auto-epitaph by a man U.S. commanders confidently proclaim will very soon be within their sights. Saddam's top bodyguard was captured near Tikrit on Tuesday, and U.S. commanders have suggested they may be only 24 hours behind a dictator. Once they catch...