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...Polish Peasant's Party, which received about 8% of the vote. Domestically, a PO-led government will seek to deliver on promises to lower taxes on families and businesses. Party officials say Poland's foreign policy will change more in style than in substance: Its leaders will continue to defend national interests but will also seek to have a positive say in the European Union, where the Kaczynski government's recalcitrant stance often caused considerable anger. Radek Sikorski, a former Defense Minister under the Kaczynskis who has since joined with the PO, said that while the previous government referred...
...like California real estate and Chinese toys, and foreign affairs have quickly become Perino's weak spot. Before becoming deputy to McClellan, Snow's predecessor, her experience was in domestic issues. When hit with tough questions on Iraq, Perino often reverts to yawn-inducing talking points. In late September, defending Bush's decision to go to war, she droned, "Saddam Hussein decided to defy the international community. All diplomatic measures ran their course. And what we are focused on now is making sure that Iraq can be a government that can sustain and defend itself...
This Saturday, Harvard returns to Jordan Field in an Ivy League match-up against league leader Princeton. Both teams look to defend their one-loss league records...
...down on their bases in the mountains. Turkey also wants Iraq to join Washington and Ankara in labeling the PKK a terrorist organization. But if Iraq fails to curb the PKK, then, as President Abdullah Gul told TIME in an interview earlier this year, "Turkey reserves the right to defend itself...
...chance of picking up nine seats. The tail wind from the 2006 elections would have to gust into 2008. "For Democrats to get to 60 they'd have to go 8-0 in every plausible race and then find one more from one of the scandal-ridden states and defend Senator [Mary] Landrieu in Louisiana," said Charlie Cook, editor of the non-partisan Cook Political Report, which tracks congressional races. "That's an incredibly tall order...