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...Labour looks unbeatable. That has fueled speculation that Brown might call a snap election as early as next month. Insiders say a decision has not yet been made and point out that an election isn't due until 2010. But there's a clear temptation to secure a new five-year term before global financial turmoil can do too much damage to Britain's economy, and while Conservatives and Liberal Democrats flounder. Brown has wrong-footed his opponents who expected him to move Labour to the left. Instead he has co-opted advisers from across the political spectrum, strengthening Labour...
...This week Musharraf, who overthrew Sharif in a bloodless coup eight years ago, plans to file nomination papers for another bid for the presidency, a five-year term that would keep a man the U.S. calls its best ally in the war on terror in power, but that also risks further destabilizing a nuclear-armed nation that is teetering on the edge of a militant Islamic insurgency. Elections will be held October 6 and will be conducted by an electoral college made up of the national and provincial assemblies...
...change were to come in Pakistan, how would it happen? Musharraf's current tenure ends on Nov. 15. To have another go at the presidency, he will need to be elected before then for a second five-year term by the sitting national and provincial assemblies, before they are dissolved for parliamentary polls that can be held as late as January 2008. But the Supreme Court can block Musharraf's bid to remain in power by enforcing a constitutional ban on elected officials from holding military rank. (Retired soldiers must wait two years before standing for office.) Musharraf previously...
...been shy about admitting to his crimes. Pichuzkin detailed his exploits in a televised confession that aired shortly after his arrest in June 2006, following a five-year stretch of killings that plagued the neighborhoods around Moscow's vast Bitzevsky Park. "For me, a life without murder is like a life without food for you," he declared. "I felt like the father of all these people, since it was I who opened the door for them to another world." At one point, furious that the police had cast their suspicion on another person, he promptly went out and killed...
...year Harvard veteran, will assume the post of vice president for alumni affairs and development on Oct. 1. She will be called on to jump-start the University’s long-awaited capital campaign, which was delayed several times during Lawrence H. Summers’ tumultuous five-year presidency...