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...MANAGING TO GOVERN...
...stability. Musharraf, who was elected by the legislature to a second term as president last month, has promised to step down as army chief before taking the oath of office on November 15. But if the court rules against him, he could simply suspend the constitution and continue to govern as head of the military. While such a move would keep Musharraf in charge, it would effectively derail plans to create a more popular, civilian-based government in Pakistan to fight extremism. And so acute has opposition to Musharraf's rule become that declaring martial law raises the danger that...
...accord signed by Sadr and SIIC leader Abdul Aziz al Hakim two weeks ago in Iran, the power grab plays out daily on the streets of southern cities such as Diwaniyah. "What's happening in this town is like a political duel over who's going to govern," said Ali al Mayali, a Sadrist member of the Iraqi Parliament. "It's a fight to control the street." Fueling that fight, Mayali said, is money and other support from neighboring countries. He would not point fingers. While U.S. officials point to the presence of Iranian-trained cells of both Badr...
...People can go to the extreme like what we saw during the Cultural Revolution ... When people take everything into their own hands, then you cannot govern the place.' DONALD TSANG, Hong Kong's Chief Executive, comparing the territory's campaign for universal suffrage to the social upheaval caused by Mao Zedong's anti-rightist purges in the 1960s, during a radio interview. Tsang apologized for his comments after an outcry from pro-democracy lawmakers...
...glorious of England’s past, the embarrassingly naïve and volatile young Elizabeth from the first film brings a fresh element of realism to the legend of the personality. In this second film, however, Elizabeth is vulnerable in a different way: she has to work to govern herself as well as her kingdom, and she must learn to accept her demanding and often lonely role as Queen of England. The camera often peers down on her from above, showing her in the middle of a huge hall, dwarfed by the centuries of history about her. The film?...