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...have been fighting my way upstream.” Such clichés are only met with others like it, including “The concept of freedom is an absolute,” which she delivers later. It doesn’t help that this dialogue is held together by a very shaky and predictable plotline. At the beginning, there is an attempt to incorporate political commentary into a film based around societal intrigue–but as soon as it becomes intriguing, the story reverts back to the default quibbles of the aristocratic couple, and all goes downhill...
...Colorado, where the Democrats held their convention, Obama now enjoys the support of registered voters by a 51% to 45% margin; in late August McCain led that group by a difference of 49% to 44%. Among likely voters in the state, which TIME/CNN polled for the first time as part of this series of battleground polls, Obama leads...
...impoverished mine worker, Motlanthe came of age politically as a student activist during the Soweto uprising of 1976, and the following year was imprisoned for his role in those events. He spent ten years behind bars on Robben Island, the infamous South African prison which held so many anti-Apartheid leaders it became known as the "university of the struggle", where he joined fellow inmate Nelson Mandela in the ANC. Upon release, he became an organizer for the National Union of Mineworkers, becoming its Secretary General in 1987. A decade later, was voted into the same position...
...civilians, there are strong signs that growing numbers of Pakistanis are ready to embrace the fight against terrorism as their own. "It may have started off as America's war, but this is now clearly Pakistan's fight," says retired general turned liberal analyst Talat Masood, echoing a widely held view in the wake of the Marriott attack. To turn that sentiment into an effective campaign, however, Masood says the government will need support from previously ambivalent political parties - and to do that, it will have to demonstrate its independence from Washington...
...administration of technocrats propped up by the military, to establish a fact-finding commission that could go about the long-overdue work of collecting testimony and starting prosecutions. In recent weeks, they've called for the banning of suspected war criminals and collaborators from the polls due to be held in December, but they face stiff resistance. The real authority in the country, General Moeen Uddin Ahmed, said earlier this year that the current period - as his regime overhauls the nation's politics and prepares for elections in December - was not the moment to sort out the weighty baggage...