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...still only partly formed and Mugabe was deriding the MDC as "insolent." Worse for Tsvangirai's supporters was the sight of their leader smiling and shaking hands with a man whose forces had repeatedly tried to kill him - and them. For years, Tsvangirai had told them that a new era awaited one thing: Mugabe's departure. If Zimbabwe really was a nation in transition, as Tsvangirai insisted, how come the old tyrant was still in charge...
...province backed by Moscow that wants to secede. "At least we have a year," says Ursu, laughing. "Because constitutionally, you cannot hold elections again for another year. So that gives everyone a little time. I'm optimistic, as are most analysts, that this is the start of a new era...
...country, where voters see them as a nonthreatening alternative to Republicans. They frequently provide the only bridge in an increasingly partisan political climate and are highly courted by other Democrats who need their votes to pass bills. Blue Dogs voted in favor of a number of Bush-era proposals, including the war in Iraq and warrantless wiretapping. They forced Obama to institute a pay-as-you-go budget plan for his $787 billion stimulus bill, recently delayed the Waxman-Markey climate-change energy bill and blocked legislation that would benefit unions. And now seven of the eight Blue Dogs...
...Khordad 1388 (June 2009) to the most famous social uprisings in Iran's 20th century history: the 1906 Constitutional Revolution, the 1951-53 period of Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh and the 1979 revolution. Of the three, he argues, the Green Movement most resembles the social movements surrounding the Mossadegh era, when the Prime Minister attempted to nationalize Iran's oil sector but was toppled in a U.S.-backed coup that restored the Shah to power. Unlike the 1906 and 1979 revolutions, which wanted to change the existing regime entirely (the first wanted a constitutional monarchy; the latter, a republic...
...However, a new coalition, the Change List, is expected to make gains in the election, with polls showing that it could capture as much as a quarter of the vote. This represents the first significant challenge to the ruling parties in the region, and it could herald a new era of instability in Iraq...