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...coming to power will increase polarization. She is seen as pro-West, and she is very clear about it." Sharif himself has made it clear that combating militancy would be top of his agenda were he, or his party, to lead Pakistan. "You can't fight terror the way Mr. Musharraf is fighting," he told CNN. "He needs the threat of terror for his own survival. We will fight out of conviction...
...what happens there is closely followed by Washington. The State Department has studiously stayed away from condemning Sharif's deportation. "It's a matter for the Pakistanis to resolve," said spokesman Sean McCormack. "The Pakistani Supreme Court has made a judgment about this issue and the decision to deport Mr. Sharif runs contrary to that, but it is still a pending legal matter in Pakistan, so we're not going to have anything to say about...
...doing anything significantly negative," says Dennis Jett, Dean of the International Center at the University of Florida in Gainesville. However, Jett and other analysts wonder whether Tehran's romancing of Managua may mark a change in that status. "You have to wonder what the Iranians are thinking as Mr. Bush goes through his bluster and threatens military action against Iran," says Jett. "It wouldn't surprise me that if they found a willing partner in Nicaragua that they would put some terrorist capability into Nicaragua and Venezuela, because it's that much closer to the United States if they have...
...became clear that the car wasn't selling, company researchers fanned out to discover why. One theory blamed the name itself, with its unpleasant homophonic associations with diesel and dead cell (as in batteries). It just wasn't a pretty word, though it seems to have served Mr. Ford well enough...
...lobbyists in Gucci Gulch bribe legislators today? They do it with innuendo. If Brandstetter had said, "As you know, Mr. Swanstrom, NOW has a history of contributing to political campaigns. And it has contributed more to candidates with a voting record that is compatible with our goals. These days one of our goals is the ratification of the ERA," she would have avoided a fine, probation and community service...