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...leadership? Unlikely. Nothing in Musharraf's actions over the past eight years indicate that he is ready to relinquish power just yet. It's just as likely that the general will turn away from messy deals with politicians and simply declare emergency rule. Doing so would allow him to maintain both his titles, and postpone elections for another year. The U.S. has already once persuaded him not to do that, citing concerns about maintaining democracy in Pakistan, but if Musharraf senses his own survival is at stake, Washington's leverage may not be enough to dissuade him from drastic measures...
However, legal scholars maintain that sending Noriega - currently the world's only recognized prisoner of war - to France would violate the terms of the Geneva Convention if Paris fails to accord him POW status. Despite assertions from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami that the French government intends to honor the Geneva Convention, Noriega's Miami-based lawyer Frank Rubino maintains that may not be the case. "The French Ambassador to Panama - Pierre-Henri Guinard - publicly stated Gen. Noriega will not be treated as a prisoner of war but as a common criminal," Rubino told U.S. Magistrate William Turnoff...
...talent, translate this magic to a major orchestra when he moves to L.A.? During transitional phrases, he can exhibit a young man's impatience, as if waiting for, rather than earning, the exciting passages (he conducted portions of the Edinburgh rehearsal with one hand in his pocket). Will he maintain the orchestra's respect? "Of course there are concerns," Simon Rattle says, before evoking again the mysterious nonlinguistic rapport between musicians and their leader. "But with Gustavo the music is the answer to every question you could...
...chief Dannatt is lobbying for a withdrawal in public and private, says Dodge: "He's saying Afghanistan is most important and I won't have my army broken over the knee of Iraq." With an army of fewer than 100,000, the U.K. doesn't have the manpower to maintain a significant presence in Iraq and continue ramping up operations in Afghanistan. The government may not yet have figured out exactly how to extricate British troops from Iraq but that calculation is becoming ever more urgent as efforts to fight the Taliban intensify...
This might spur central bankers to lower interest rates in an attempt to maintain the integrity of sound lenders and borrowers and stop the markets from seizing up. Whether this saves the day or is seen as just a symptom of more bad news to come for risky assets will then be the next big issue for investors to interpret. Normally, such moves are seen as bad news. But for investors who have been savvy and patient, such rocky times may offer a fine opportunity to pick up cheap equities, particularly in sectors likely to benefit from powerful long-term...