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...Johnson, wild-haired and often wild-eyed on the stump, hasn't helped his cause by contradicting his own policy statements. For example, he has quoted an array of widely different costs for his plan to deploy eco-friendly versions of London's iconic double-decker buses. Such fumbles are a gift to Livingstone, whose success or failure will resonate loudly in Westminster. Voters throughout England and Wales are casting ballots in municipal elections on the same day, and Gordon Brown's battered Labour government is expected to perform miserably, losing perhaps as many as 200 local council seats...
...only does the Chinese government have immense political and diplomatic leverage over the Sudanese government, but it has been responsive to campaigns linking Darfur with the Olympics. In July 2007, Beijing voted in favor of the Security Council resolution authorizing the deployment of the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID). Shortly after Steven Spielberg resigned as Artistic Director of the Olympics, China declared that Sudan “should be more flexible” in allowing UNAMID to deploy...
...fear now is that the regime will encourage the veterans to deploy to opposition strongholds across the country. Just where those bastions are located is now all too obvious in the results posted on the sides of polling stations across Zimbabwe. "Our guys voted Zanu-PF, which was a disappointment," said the South Africa-based brother of one white farmer who has held onto his land in northern Zimbabwe. "But in hindsight, it's a blessing in disguise. The next-door farm voted M.D.C., and those guys are pretty worried...
That is still a big if. Mugabe could deploy the security forces, as he has before, to try to cling to power. But a wind of change is in the air. Once one of Africa's most prosperous nations, Zimbabwe has been wrecked by Mugabe's disastrous policies. Inflation is running at an annual rate of more than 100,000%, and millions have left for havens elsewhere...
...Whatever the state of their personal chemistry, then, Bush and Putin will engage each other over a widening chasm in the coming days. Besides NATO's expansion eastward, they also differ strongly over U.S. plans to deploy its missile defense system in the Czech Republic and Poland by 2012, ostensibly to intercept potential attacks from Iran. And Russia has been irked by the NATO powers' enabling of Kosovo's breakaway from Serbia, which Moscow deems illegal...