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...home to Malaysia's Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. The locals of Kepala Batas, located in western Malaysia's Penang state, consider Abdullah, whose ruling National Front coalition is contesting the March 8 general elections, a kindly, avuncular presence. But their real respect appears to be reserved for his father and grandfather, both noted Islamic clerics. Indeed, one of the main streets in town is named after Abdullah's father, Ahmad Badawi. A grilled-fish vendor named Ibrahim Anwar, coping with the lunchtime rush near Ahmad Badawi Avenue, is befuddled when asked why he plans to vote for Abdullah. Ibrahim...
...previous elections, the opposition Islamist party PAS has had some success portraying its religious values as an antidote to rising crime and drug use. Back in 2004, 30% of Kepala Batas voters actually chose the PAS parliamentary candidate over Abdullah. (In a complicated twist of family history, Abdullah's father served as a PAS youth leader, before the party fully broke with UMNO.) This election season, PAS's green-and-white flags flutter throughout Kepala Batas. "Abdullah may come from a good Muslim family, but he does not make his wife wear a veil," says Fadzil Darus, a grocery-store...
Thurman, who is the father of actress Uma Thurman, noted that guilt is a “useful emotion” as a tool of mental self-discipline and prevents people from harming each other...
...lived, Benazir Bhutto would probably have been her country's Prime Minister for an unprecedented third time - but she was a divisive figure despite that. To her friends and intimates, she will always be remembered by her nickname, Pinky. To millions of supporters, she was the inheritor of her father's political legacy and his Pakistan People's Party. To millions of others, she was a brazen opportunist - a onetime idealist warped by ambition. Bhutto's posthumous memoir, Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West, will do little to change those ingrained opinions...
Several thousand miles and a world away, Barack Obama is campaigning to change American politics. But in the tiny farmstead where his father used to herd goats, his Kenyan relatives are praying for anything but more political upheaval. "We are spending sleepless nights praying that peace will prevail," says the 86-year-old woman whom the presidential contender calls Granny Sarah...