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...West Is In Oil-rich Alberta is already a major driver of Canada's economy. With the ascent of a western-based Prime Minister, the region may now play a far larger role in driving national politics. The Harper government will be power-packed with influential Albertans, many of them (like the Prime Minister-designate) graduates or acolytes of the University of Calgary's libertarian political-science department. Westerners have been dreaming of such access for decades. "We're moving from the kids' table of Confederation to sit with the adults," gloats Western Standard publisher Levant...
NAMED. SHEIK SABAH AL-AHMAD AL-SABAH, 76, liberal-minded and pragmatic Prime Minister of Kuwait; as emir of the oil-rich Persian Gulf state; in Kuwait City. His appointment came after Kuwait's parliament ousted his ailing cousin Sheik Saad al-Abdullah al-Sabah, who had ascended to the throne following the death of the previous emir, Sheik Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah, two weeks...
...would schedule an election during the February doldrums. But the opposition parties, who held 173 seats of 308 in the House of Commons, decided they would never have a better opportunity to strike. For Harper, 46, a longtime Tory firebrand who began his career in Calgary in the oil-rich western province of Alberta, it was a date with destiny. The media-averse leader is staking his second and possibly last try for high office on the gamble that Canadians are finally ready to change political course. The gamble might pay off. Canada appears to be waking...
...populous countries, Brazil and Mexico, as well as in coca producers like Peru and Ecuador. Leftists have toppled conservative governments in Uruguay and Honduras, and socialist Michelle Bachelet is favored to win Chile's presidential runoff on Jan. 15. To punctuate the situation, the radical left-wing President of oil-rich Venezuela, Hugo Chávez--the "new mayor of the Latin American street," says Larry Birns, director of the Washington-based Council on Hemispheric Affairs--is all but certain to be re-elected at year...
...Paris as a terrorism suspect and send him to Pakistan to be tortured. In Syriana a young Pakistani immigrant can't find work in a rich Persian Gulf nation, so he joins an extremist madrasah, but the movie's sprawling story also faults the U.S. for supporting corrupt, oil-rich despots...