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...succeed him, but throughout history, acts of terror have proven useful rationales to seize or hold on to power. The apartment bombings of 1999 helped make Putin president. A seizure of a school by terrorists in the city of Beslan in September 2004 let him broaden his hold authoritarian grip on the state. Last night's train bombing may prove a precursor to a similar grab, as Russia elites gear up for the coming political season...
...they would take the party. As long ago as 1998, his stated project with Bush was to remake the G.O.P. into a permanent governing majority of the kind the Democratic Party enjoyed from 1932 through 1968. He would do it by winning over Latino voters and breaking the Democrats' grip on seniors and - of course - pounding voters at every turn with the argument that only Republicans could be trusted with America's national security in such perilous times...
...embattled Gonzales' grip on his job seems unshakable. Bush tossed Donald Rumsfeld last fall despite support from conservatives for the then Defense Secretary, and the President chucked Joint Chiefs Chairman Peter Pace at the first sign of congressional resistance to his renomination. So why the extraordinary support for Gonzales in the face of a protracted meltdown at the Department of Justice (DOJ)? Here are four reasons why Bush can't afford to let Gonzales...
...right. That was his obsession. He was brought up religiously [his father was a Lutheran minister], and he longed for the possibility of religious phenomena. That longing tortured him his whole life. But in the end, he was a great entertainer. The Seventh Seal, The Magician, they grip you. It's not like doing homework...
...gains on the diplomatic and business fronts. Meantime, Gaddafi says he'll continue working on liberalizing and democratizing the dictatorship built by his father since 1969 - a notion scoffed at by human rights organizations. Responding to doubts that the regime could reform to the point of releasing its iron grip on power, the younger Gaddafi says neither his father nor the nation has much choice...