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...year ago, few even in his own party believed Rudd, a 50-year-old former diplomat and bureaucrat who has been in Parliament for only nine years, had a hope of overturning the P.M. Indeed, Howard had seen off four Labor opponents in a row. A prissy, bookish multimillionaire, Rudd was far from the stereotypical Aussie bloke. But with the help of focus groups, public-relations advisers and expressions like "mate" and "fair dinkum," he made himself over as a cooler, younger version of 68-year-old Howard: not a revolutionary, just a renovator. His slick, buzzword-driven campaign...
...crisis peaked Friday when parliamentarians failed to elect a new head of state to replace Lahoud due to a lack of the required quorum. Despite weeks of back-room negotiations and intense international mediation, the feuding politicians have been unable to find a suitable successor acceptable to both sides. Parliament is scheduled to convene again on November 30 for another attempt at electing a president...
...Culture Ministry, with its 11,200 employees, lavishes money on such "high-culture" mainstays as museums, opera houses and theater festivals. But the ministry also appointed a Minister for Rock 'n' Roll in the 1980s to help France compete against the Anglo-Saxons (unsuccessfully). Likewise, parliament in 2005 voted to designate foie gras as a protection-worthy part of the nation's cultural heritage...
...However, this is just the start of the process. E.U. governments and the European Parliament will decide on any reforms in the second half of 2008. As it happens, that is when France - the biggest recipient of E.U. farm subsidies - will hold the E.U.'s rotating presidency. German and British officials have already signaled their resistance to the plans, arguing that larger farms are more efficient and ought not be penalized...
...home-grown, nourished on local antipathy to a government that doesn't represent their wishes, and allowed to fester by political parties loath to alienate the religious vote by cracking down on demands for Sharia. "The people want the militancy to stop," says Adnan Aurangzeb, a former member of Parliament from Swat, and the grandson of the valley's last princely ruler. "The militants have stopped tourism and disrupted their lives, but the government doesn't have the people's sympathy either." A military crackdown, and the inevitable civilian casualties, will only estrange the people further. "This is the kind...