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...what has developed into a turbulent bid for Canadian Parliament, former Kennedy School of Government (KSG) professor of public policy and newly-minted star candidate for Canada’s Liberal party Michael Ignatieff came under attack last Friday over statements he made to the Harvard Crimson concerning his intentions to return to Harvard post-election. Ignatieff, who raised eyebrows when he left Harvard this September to assume a visiting professorship at the University of Toronto in Canada, took a break from academia almost two weeks ago to enter as a Liberal candidate for Canadian Parliament...
...having moved Labor into the political center, cutting the ground from under the Tories with a long record of adopting their most attractive policies, Cameron faces a hard slog if he is to win the next election. Thus his baptism of fire on Wednesday, facing the assured Blair during parliament's weekly Prime Minister's Question Time. Britons prize debating skills and toughness of performance in the legislature as among the most desirable attributes for their leaders. To the relief of the Tories, Cameron-their fourth leader since Blair took office- handled his ordeal with ease and confidence. Although...
President Hosni Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party is still expected to wind up with nearly 80% of the Parliament's 454 seats. But the unprecedented freedom it granted opponents in this election enabled the 77-year-old Brotherhood--whose members run as independents because of a ban on religious parties--to field twice as many candidates as in the last vote five years ago, when 15 members took office. The group did well this year despite voter intimidation, including some poll closings, witnessed by TIME. A U.S. State Department spokesman still praised the vote as "an important step...
...force and on keeping Belarusians dependent on the state. No less than 80% of the population live on federal salaries, pensions, stipends and subsidies. This repressive climate has fueled rumors about the fate of those who oppose the regime. When, in 1999, Gennady Karpenko, a former member of parliament then challenging the President, died of an apparent brain hemorrhage, people were swift to suggest he had been murdered. Three more prominent opposition activists have since disappeared. And in 2000, when a Russian TV cameraman was kidnapped and murdered, some alleged he had been the mistaken victim of a politically motivated...
...Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, discussed the matter with Rice in Washington earlier this week, his boss, new German Chancellor Angela Merkel, took the carrot approach where her predecessor might have preferred the stick. "I think we can trust ... that the US government is taking European concerns seriously," she told parliament, "and that quite soon (it) will clarify the recent reports on alleged CIA prisons." British Foreign Minister Jack Straw, whose country currently holds the EU presidency, formally asked Rice to address "parliamentary and public concerns" over the flights...