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Washington, a former spokesman for Chicago's first black mayor, Harold Washington (no relation), wrote that on election night, during a discussion over who might succeed Obama in the Senate, Burris turned to a friend of hers to say, "Why not me?" In mid-December, as the controversy raged over...
The landslide reminded Awami League supporters of the party's huge win in the 1970 poll, another pivotal election. Bangladesh was still East Pakistan; when West Pakistan refused to accept the result a brutal military crackdown followed and, eventually, the 1971 war of independence. That isn't the case now...
To head off that possibility, Kung'u, her close associate Tony Otieno and their group of volunteers are again taking on responsibilities that ought to fall to the government. They hope by acting now, far in advance of the next presidential election in 2012, they might just keep chaos at...
• Despite having been unseated from the National Assembly in a 1996 election, Qureshi turned down a position in the Council of Economic Advisers to then-President Musharraf, a member of the Pakistan Muslim League party.
The air strikes that began Saturday, in which Palestinians claim at least 280 people have been killed, marked a dramatic escalation of the high-stakes poker game between Israel and Hamas. Over the past seven weeks, each side has calculated the odds of outbidding the other. Hamas - and the civilian...