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...were a U.S. President, Putin would be a lame duck at this stage. His second term of office expires four months from now, and the constitution prohibits him from seeking a third consecutive term. Still, nobody doubts that Russia's immediate political future will be decided primarily by the former KGB man now in the Kremlin. Some supporters have urged him to find a legal loophole to allow himself another term; others hope that, as the leading candidate of United Russia in Sunday's poll, he simply moves into the legislature in the job of Prime Minister, and inverts...
...latest - Bali is just the beginning of the beginning, not the end. As Claussen points out, a successful summit would be one that, counterintuitively, leaves much undecided - while attaching a firm deadline to the end of negotiations, with 2010 as the latest possible date. With the Bush Administration nearing lame duck status, a 2010 deadline would give a new U.S. Administration time - though not much time - to enter the process and hopefully take a leading position. That extra time might also allow China or India to soften their negotiating tactics, and perhaps accept lesser limitations, such as mandatory targets...
...every word is important.RR: You didn’t want to make the Yale students uglier or less articulate or anything like that?MW: No, because it speaks for itself. I didn’t want to have stereotypes and clichés because that’s just lame. I could have advertised this as a Yale-Harvard thing but I didn’t, because I want it to be about the play and not about the rivalry.RR: Yeah, I guess we beat them enough in the past few weeks.MW: Well, I didn?...
...only man who could beat Zuma to the party post is the incumbent, but though Mbeki has declared that he is willing to serve again, he has been weakened by a series of political missteps. The prospect of a Zuma presidency or two more years under the lame-duck Mbeki so alarms some in the party's old guard that they are scrambling to nominate alternatives, including ANC stalwarts turned businessmen Tokyo Sexwale and Cyril Ramaphosa...
President George W. Bush is incredibly popular right now... with foreign leaders. At home, of course, he's a lame duck, and a record 50% of Americans strongly disapprove of his presidency, according to a recent Gallup poll. Overseas, he has taken America to historic lows among poll respondents around the world. The war in Iraq, the rise of China and perceived American unilateralism have diminished U.S. global influence to its lowest level since the Cold War. But in all that bad news, smart foreigners see an opportunity - and that explains why the President finds himself on the receiving...