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...Here was a candidate that you would have thought the social conservative leadership could embrace without reservation, a fresh, appealing, Southern Baptist preacher-pol who didn't believe in evolution, whose wife (by covenant marriage, no less) has slept under bridges with homeless people, and who was more consistently pro-life than anyone in the field. So what was Paul Weyrich doing backing Romney and Pat Robertson endorsing Rudy and the National Right to Life committee supporting Thompson? "I've known Mike a long time," said Land. "I think Mike would be a fine President...
...ally yanked support this week from the fragile center-left government, Prodi no longer has a working majority in the Italian Senate. By virtually any reckoning in Italy's complex political arithmetic, this should spell government crisis - and, it would seem, the final bell for the 68-year-old pol, who was resurrected after his last fall from power in Rome by becoming president of the European Commission in 1999. When asked by reporters "How's it going?" just before his address to the Italian Parliament on Tuesday, Prodi declared his faith in his own survival skills. "Very well...
...Wearing a white polo shirt and with his graying hair neatly combed, the rail-thin 65-year-old appeared relaxed as he rose, pressed his palms together and addressed the United Nations-backed Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal on Tuesday at the first public hearing of a former member of Pol Pot's brutal regime...
...made at a later date. Meanwhile, the tribunal will be busy in coming months: Lawyers for the four other senior Khmer Rouge leaders now in detention have already submitted similar appeals or are planning to do so, court officials said. The actual trials of the five suspects - Duch; Pol Pot's second-in-command Nuon Chea; Khmer Rouge foreign minister Ieng Sary and his wife Ieng Thirith, the regime's minister of social action; and Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan - are expected to start in March or April next year...
...some 30 years since the Khmer Rouge regime committed its crimes, the arrest of the elderly pair - Sary is 82 and Thirith is 75 - was little consolation. "Why are you only coming to ask questions now?" she asks, noting that there seemed to be more media attention on Pol Pot's terrifying reign now than there was when he was actually in power. "[The regime] was a long time ago already...