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Guessing the fate of Northern Rock is no less popular right now than guessing that of Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling. When Brown picked him as his successor as finance minister last June, Darling's closeness to Brown was his strength. Dependable, gaffe-free (and, like the Prime Minister, a Scot), Darling was a safe bet at the Treasury. Much less so now. Recent controversies over changes to Britain's capital gains tax, and plans to tax non-domiciled foreigners living in the U.K., have heaped criticism on Darling. And the strung-out - and fruitless - search for a buyer...
...their time. "There are the hills, the mountains, caves, rivers to hide in. Indonesia had 18 battalions in Timor," he says, referring to the time Jakarta tried to suppress the Timorese independence movement, "and they never succeeded against the guerrillas in the forest." And, he says, the rebels enjoy popular support. "The local people will not tell them where they are hiding...
...Hillary victory in Texas, by whatever margin, and a close finish, whoever wins, in Ohio and Pennsylvania will leave the delegate count very close. Hillary will have been the winner in four of the five largest states. The tally of the popular vote from all the primaries—including Florida and Michigan—will be extremely close and whomever it favors, Hillary will almost certainly have been the first choice of registered Democrats...
...being that the superdelegates should simply confirm the selection of the voters. But what would that mean, in specific terms? Should it be winner take all by state? Proportional by state? Or all the superdelegates simply to the candidate who won the most delegates? Or the winner of the popular vote? Or the winner among registered Democrats? And what about Florida and Michigan in these calculations? In short, either camp can make a “follow-the-voters” argument to suit its purposes...
...misleading and give rise to rumors." Of course, they can also be a reliable check on election results. "This is yet another restriction on the type of commentary and prognostication of polling that the government doesn't want to see," says Imran Aslam, president Geo TV, Pakistan's most popular channel. "They are obviously concerned about any kind of independent observation with people in the field... We weren't doing just exit polls, we were able to get a progressive look at the outcomes and in a scientific matter predict results. This may have hit the [government's] panic button...