Word: firebrands
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...would be blamed by hard-liners irked by his moderating restraints, would be as bad as a win, for which these same hard-liners would take the credit. But for the country, the consequences of an upset could be little short of disastrous. With obvious mischief, Pravin Togadia, the firebrand international head of the s's religious arm, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council, or VHP), warns that what little control the BJP, or even he, exercises over the Hindu mob would evaporate if Modi were to lose on Dec. 12. "It will mean people are no longer prepared...
...Pakistan People's Party (PPP), living in exile in London. Apparently out of spite against the President, Bhutto was prepared to cast aside her moderate, pro-Western views and tell her PPP to back the candidate of the alliance of Islamic parties for Prime Minister, Maulana Fazlur Rehman?a firebrand preacher who wants the U.S. forces kicked out of Pakistani military bases. Having Rehman as Prime Minister would have been tough to explain to Washington, so Musharraf moved fast. His political fixers tried to rope in Bhutto by agreeing to drop corruption charges against her and her jailed husband, Asif...
...voice bellows not from some bearded firebrand but from Sumbal, a five-year-old girl in a bubble-gum-pink smock. After her speech, delivered with a child's pure-spun rage, Sumbal encounters TIME's correspondent, an American citizen. Trembling, she hides behind her teacher's legs and tries to bury her face in the baggy folds of his salwar kameez. This is her worst nightmare: after memorizing her diatribe against blood-thirsty Americans, one of them has come stalking up the ravines after...
...polls to pick a new president on October 6? The answer may lie in the recent failure of U.S.-backed capitalist experiments all over Latin America, which have left even more of the region's 500 million people mired in poverty. That, and the fact that the erstwhile firebrand leader of Brazil's Workers Party (PT) has in some ways repackaged himself as a Blair of Brazil, moving his party and its policies toward the center as Tony Blair has done so successfully for Britain's Labor Party...
...Republican who did not join in the cheers that morning was Tom DeLay, who for almost eight years has been majority whip, the House G.O.P.'s top enforcer and vote counter. The conservative Texan knew his new adversary was a mediagenic and relentless political organizer, a firebrand who could invigorate her party's liberal base just as he does the Republican right. "She's a worthy opponent," says DeLay. "I've always sort of liked her. But, obviously, I want to beat her at every turn...