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Jimmy Carter has a mixed record on post-presidential peacemaking. He helped oust a Haitian dictator and set North Korea on a path to freezing its nuclear program in 1994 but later that year inked an unofficial cease-fire with Bosnian Serbs months before they slaughtered 8,000 Muslim civilians at Srebrenica. Now Carter has riled the Bush Administration by talking to leaders of the militant Palestinian group Hamas in Syria...
...doesn't have to test these findings in parliamentary elections anytime soon. But there's talk in Westminster of a plot to oust Brown, and there's a swell of open hostility toward him in the British media. Last fall, he flirted with calling a snap poll to win a new mandate in his own right - a gambit that proved disastrous when he balked at holding elections in the face of an upswing in support for the Conservative opposition. Another well-polished asset, Brown's reputation for sound economic stewardship, has become ever more tarnished as Britain's economy takes...
...good news is that there hasn't been a coup d'etat in Haiti in the wake of violent protests over increased food prices. However Saturday's vote by 16 of the country's 27 lawmakers to oust Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis means that the country is in the middle of a severe leadership crisis - and that Haiti's Head of State, President Rene Preval, is now politically impotent, bereft of his chief executive...
...Evangelicals in general (of whom Southern Baptists represent a sizable piece) has been swinging ever greener. Back in 2006, megapastor Rick Warren signed onto a statement calling for a reduction in CO2 emissions. More recently, old-line Evangelical leaders, such as James Dobson and Gary Bauer, tried to oust Richard Cizik, the head lobbyist of the National Association of Evangelicals, who has fueled attempts to rally conservative Christians to the environmental cause; but Cizik's organization, while never fully supporting his mission, refused to drop him. Cizik is pleased with Merritt's declaration. "That resolution last summer was really cold...
...release Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the freedom of Corporal Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier kidnapped in June 2006. Israel has, until now, refused to discuss a truce with Hamas, which it (together with the U.S. and European Union) considers a terrorist organization. And, facing international sanctions designed to oust it from power, Hamas has shown no inclination to halt rockets being fired into southern Israel from territory under its control...