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...enlarged at the end of last summer's war. In Nahr al-Bared, a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, the national Army remains locked in a brutal six-week confrontation with militants inspired by al-Qaeda. And a series of bomb attacks and the assassination of a Sunni politician last month underscore the deep divisions tearing apart this tiny country. Those divisions have steadily widened since last year's monthlong war. Then, Hizballah's leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, was the toast of the Arab street, after fighting the Israeli army to a standstill. Hizballah soon came under intense domestic...
...answer: political acumen and the inability of his detractors to come up with someone among themselves to take his place. Unlike his predecessor, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, who was more of an intellectual, Maliki has turned out to be a street-smart politician. He ingratiated himself with the Kurdish bloc when he stood up to aggressive Turkish rhetoric about the Kurdish border in May. He's managed to hold onto the support of the Shi'ite coalition by gingerly two-stepping around the abolition of militias - authorizing coalition and Iraqi troops to fight them in some cities, leaving them largely untouched...
...past officials - an effort that Nagin, to his credit, spearheaded in his first term. New population statistics show that the city has regained more than half of its pre-Katrina population. Citizen-led reforms have consolidated the city's patchwork and inefficient network of property assessors and replaced the politician-dominated levee oversight system with a centralized office staffed largely by engineers and scientists. Enrollment at Tulane and Loyola University, New Orleans' prestigious private colleges, has rebounded. And the city's notoriously underperforming school system is showing signs of improvement, with charter schools stepping in to revamp many troubled schools...
...Support for Fretilin this time around was roughly half that amount, and the party is increasingly viewed as out of touch with East Timor's poverty-stricken masses. "In five years, Fretilin was not able to do anything to make this country better," says Lucia Lobato, a politician with the opposition Social Democratic Party. "People have lost patience...
...Kirchner, who represents the province of Buenos Aires, has a reputation as an implacable anti-corruption fighter with little time for traditional political niceties. She has ruffled feathers even within the couple's Peronist party and is seen by observers as a more temperamental and radical politician than her husband. President Kirchner, on the other hand, is a mild and soft-spoken operator who rescued Argentina from the agonizing economic crisis that followed the country's default on its foreign debt in late 2001. Assuming office in 2003, President Kirchner broke with traditional free-market economic recipes, settled the country...