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...recent years Malaysia has stagnated. Its political structure has calcified, corruption concerns have multiplied and the population is cleaving along ethnic lines. Small wonder that in March Malaysians handed Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi's National Front its worst-ever electoral result...
...Bukhari Azlan, who appeared on national television to accuse his ex-boss of the crime. Anwar has consistently denied the accusations, claiming they are politically motivated. Meanwhile, he has also come under fire for his support of policies that would extend Malaysia's affirmative action benefits - now exclusive to ethnic Malays - to the nation's other minority races. As votes were being counted on election night, Anwar supporter Abdul Fatih, 51, a trader in the town of Permatang Pauh still harbored doubts. "Will he really win? Will they let him win?" he asked...
...There are serious issues that have been accumulating, including ethnic problems in Tibet and Xinjiang, as well as social issues and conflicts that have been temporarily covered up by force to guarantee a 'successful Olympics,' " says He Weifang, a Peking University law professor and reform advocate. "I cannot predict whether there will be an immediate outbreak of all these problems after the Olympics. But there will be an outbreak if the government does not take steps to tackle the domestic problems...
...white, blue-collar swing voters. Biden ranks with Ted Kennedy among the Senate's best-known and longest-serving Catholics. Although he comes from a middle class family, his pro-union, moderate-to-liberal voting record and Irish-American family background give Biden popularity with working class and ethnic voters. Although Delaware has only three Electoral College votes, Biden's background could help garner a few more next door: Biden lived in Pennsylvania until age 10, and a grandfather served as a State Senator there...
...Irish Catholic, with arguable working class roots and with much appeal to white ethnic voters in places like Pennsylvania, his presence on the ticket may help with key demographic groups in the East and Midwest," says Steve Schneck, a political science professor at Catholic University in Washington. It also doesn't hurt that Biden's not afraid of the role of bare-knuckled boxer. Biden often told audiences, as he did again in Springfield, that his father used to coach him that life was not about how many times you get knocked down, it's how many times...