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...assured me, but I could never run for any public office. "Not in this country, no. Maybe France. They might be a little bigger on porn and hating America," he said. Before I could become Vice President, he told me, America would have its first female, Jewish, Hispanic, gay, Muslim and ex-convict Vice Presidents. Still, Vice President of France doesn't sound...
...scenario is being ruled out, and Andyar did not have any special security detail. One possible explanation is that the 19-year-old may be seeking asylum somewhere in Europe, following repeated threats and humiliation from Muslim extremists, including false rumors that she was a prostitute. Nick Davies, spokesman for the IAAF, the world track-and-field governing body, said there had been no signs that Andyar was having second thoughts about competing in Beijing. "It was quite a surprise to us," Davies told TIME. "We don't know where she is. All we know is that...
...succeeds, the 60-year-old former Muslim youth leader will be the first opposition politician to ever become Malaysia's Prime Minister. "With Anwar resurgent and within a whisker of the top job, there are uncanny similarities between the 1998 [political] crisis and the current one," says Wong Chin Huat, a political scientist at Monash University's Kuala Lumpur campus. Anwar puts it more bluntly. "I thought, 'Not again,'" he told TIME. "But this shows how desperate the government is. The economy is in a bad state, [parliamentarians] are crossing over to our side, there's turmoil within UMNO...
...charges, which have sidetracked Anwar's plans to re-enter Parliament, echo those preceding his 1998 imprisonment for sodomy. That conviction--overturned in 2004--came after his falling-out with then Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad over leadership of the ruling umno party. Sodomy is punishable in the Muslim-majority nation by up to 20 years behind bars...
...Istanbul Coup Plotters Arrested In the latest skirmish between Turkey's secular establishment and its Muslim leadership, authorities arrested 21 people--including two retired generals and a newspaper editor--on July 1 for allegedly planning to overthrow the pro-Islamic government. The government accused them of belonging to an ultranationalist group that it says has been collecting weapons for a military coup...