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...openly claim, as U.S. officials had privately done, that it was simply allowing the Colombians to mount today's rescue. U.S. Ambassador to Colombia William Brownfield confirmed Wednesday night that the U.S. had been involved in the planning and intelligence-gathering stages of the operation. One fortunate politician who can bask in this American policy victory is John McCain, who just happened to be visiting Colombia when the rescue was announced...
Accusations of sodomy, potential DNA tests of semen, a pre-dawn run to the Turkish embassy. Hollywood, even in its most fanciful moments, couldn't have done it better. On June 28, a police report was filed against Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim by a 23-year-old male political volunteer, who accused the opposition leader of sodomizing him. Sodomy is a crime in Muslim-majority Malaysia punishable by up to 20 years in jail. Anwar, a married father of six, denies the charges, and sought sanctuary for more than 36 hours at the Turkish embassy. He released a statement calling...
...Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej is battling for his political life. For more than a month, thousands of street protesters have rallied in Bangkok, even besieging Government House last week and forcing the 73-year-old P.M. to sneak to work through a back door. On June 27, the veteran politician, who also moonlights as a television chef, suffered the indignity of a parliamentary no-confidence vote; although Samak's six-party coalition, which controls two-thirds of the lower house, shot down the motion by a vote of 280-162, there's no end in sight to Thailand's political...
...inhospitable landscape of saw grass marshes and mangrove swamps, ponds and bays was once reviled as a pestilential hellhole. But today, even though agribusiness, development and lousy water management have ravaged it, the Everglades is revered as an ecological treasure--there is nothing like it on earth, and every politician claims to care about it. The Everglades, some say, is a test; if we pass, we may get to keep the planet...
...favorable reporting by prominent news organizations, including the New York Times, on the Bush Administration's troop surge may bolster McCain--who supports the effort--and neutralize the Iraq issue. In order to win, McCain must succeed where Hillary Clinton failed: by making Obama seem more like an ordinary politician than an inspiring leader. Obama's reversal on campaign financing and new tone on NAFTA, along with news that two Muslim women in headscarves were moved out of camera range at a rally, left the Democrat with one of the most off-message weeks of his campaign. By rejecting public...