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...Clintonian prosperity at home. Hug some trees. Propose health care. It's a strategy that might work if the public hates the President as much as Democrats do. But the public doesn't. In fact, most people like Bush the man, even if they have reservations about Bush the pol...
...mannequins from being displayed in shop windows and also disapproves of male doctors treating female patients.) But it was the MMA that gave Musharraf support in the parliamentary maneuvers that last week recognized him as an elected President. Middle-class Pakistanis wonder if he's become yet another slippery pol, although few accuse him of the corruption that tainted civilian administrations of the past. Businessmen think he's the only person who can hold Pakistan together, at least for the next few years. "If he dies," says Nazim Haji, a Karachi-based industrialist, "there will be total chaos and confusion...
...outpost of the 4th Infantry Division, which has been rolling up resisters in the most dangerous swath of Iraq, running north and west of Baghdad. Rumsfeld is warm and engaging as he enters the makeshift U.S. Army headquarters--hailing soldiers, shaking hands, working the room like the old Chicago pol he is. But after a few minutes his face darkens, and the more notorious Rumsfeld emerges. Sitting at a briefing table, Major General Raymond Odierno, the 4th Infantry Division commander, is flashing a laser pointer back and forth from maps to charts to flat-screen displays when Rumsfeld abruptly cuts...
...committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. But it could take years for such courts to bring former Baathist officials to justice. At a recent conference, Iraqi human-rights groups lashed out at a director of the reconciliation effort in Cambodia, where the process of trying members of Pol Pot's regime has taken decades and still hasn't begun in earnest. "How can we be expected to wait 23 years like you?" demanded Ibrahim Idrissi, president of Iraq's Freed Prisoners Association. "We want to get some justice here, and we wish this process would start tomorrow...
...available in his felt-lined wheelchair. His clothing and accessories reflect the range of roles he seeks to span—while his dark suit jacket would easily pass on Capitol Hill, his shiny purple tie, heavy gold rings with impressive gems, and diamond watch conjure more pimp than pol. Flynt took half an hour before his speech to share his views on the recall, the porn industry, and Hollywood with...