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...leading hawks would become Prime Minister in a landslide victory of would have been laughed at. So, too, the idea that the fierce enemy of the Oslo peace process and longtime champion of the movement to settle Israelis in the occupied lands of the West Bank and Gaza could govern in coalition with the likes of Oslo architect and arch-dove Shimon Peres. Equally outlandish, perhaps, was the idea that a man so out of step with the prevailing drift in U.S. policy to settle the Middle East conflict via a land-for-peace swap would manage to turn...
...Democrats need the compassion to care, and the toughness to govern,” From said, quoting a mentor...
...passions aroused by the temple movement helped propel the BJP into the political mainstream. In the first election following the Ayodhya violence, its parliamentary representation jumped from 2 seats to 86. Still, Vajpayee has to govern the world's biggest democracy, a self-consciously secular nation with some 150 million Muslim citizens, and as a result has always been careful to distance himself from the more extremist elements of Hindu nationalism. Today he rules by dint of a broad coalition of regional parties whose governing accord expressly precludes him from promoting the Ayodhya issue. Unless he's seen as coming...
There is a common enemy in all the current conflicts [WORLD, Jan. 14], whether in Kashmir, Afghanistan, the Middle East or the Philippines. It is a group of people who scorn secularism, democracy and peaceful coexistence and instead adhere to antiquated edicts to govern politics and jurisprudence. This enemy is a ruthless political force led by zealots struggling for domination; it is often supported by puppet regimes and dictatorships. Like communism, this enemy should be seen as evil and at odds with the prevailing political philosophy, and it is to be fought and defeated to save our civilization. MOHAN...
...John McTiernan of Die Hard fame, skates into theaters today. Starring Chris Klein (the American Pie movies), LL Cool J (Toys, Any Given Sunday), Jean Reno (The Professional , Ronin) and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos (X-Men, Dirty Work), this film depicts a future in which corporations, instead of countries, govern the people of the world. The story focuses on an extremely popular sport called Rollerball— created by executives in order to avert attention from their tyrannical control over the general populace, the show gradually becomes more and more violent as the man in charge, Alexis Petrovich (Reno), realizes that...