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Gender advocates say that the 2006 rape trial of prominent politician Jacob Zuma was incredibly damaging to their cause. Zuma, who was elected President this year, was tried and acquitted of raping an HIV-positive family friend. He told the court that the woman had dressed provocatively, in a traditional wrap-around kanga, and that it was against Zulu culture for a man to leave a sexually aroused woman unsatisfied. (See a profile of South African president Jacob Zuma...
...reformist candidate Mehdi Karroubi had urged their followers to stay away, although the authenticity of those claims could not be verified. Indeed, the latest reports confirm that Mousavi and Karroubi were themselves conspicuous by their absence from Friday's prayers. Ahmadinejad, however, was in attendance as was fellow politician Mohsen Rezaie. It's thought that the basij militia loyal to Ahmadinejad - who have been at the forefront of brutal attacks on opposition supporters - were there in force. While this created a potentially volatile security situation - just a gathering of hundreds of thousands of people, divided by political faction and stoked...
...President was, without question, the best politician in the race. His debates against the two reformers, Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, were routs. Both challengers were exemplars of the older generation - the generation that made the Islamic revolution in 1979 - and both were flummoxed by a candidate who seemed to have been trained by some Iranian equivalent of Karl Rove. They appeared paralyzed by what they considered his coarse impertinence; in American terms, these might have been debates between George Bush the Elder and Newt Gingrich, a gentlemanly establishmentarian against a rude populist brawler. Ahmadinejad was a slick combination of facts...
...this initiative system, I called former California governor Gray Davis, who got voted out of office through a recall petition. "I'm not for scrapping the initiative process," Davis said, to my shock. "I believe voters generally make good decisions." Even a recall, it seems, can't stop a politician from kissing up to voters. Davis believes that the initiative system simply needs some tinkering and that voters need an attitude adjustment, which will come later this year when we lose our schools, jails and roads and full color on the state flag. "The great people of California believe they...
...publish the photos is similar to British papers' printing of the details of parliamentary expenditures on porn films and home furnishings, revelations that have recently led to several high-profile resignations in the U.K. "It doesn't have to be criminally punishable. When you choose to be a politician, you must accept full transparency," De Mauro said. "If you're the Italian Prime Minister, your behavior gets seen and evaluated and absorbed by millions of people in Italy, and now in Berlusconi's case, around the whole world." (See pictures of Berlusconi's women at LIFE.com...