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...Zimbabwe Unity at Last? Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was sworn in on Feb. 11 as the country's new Prime Minister, after nearly 11 months of political violence and stalled negotiations with controversial leader Robert Mugabe, who refused to step down as President despite losing the March 29 presidential election to Tsvangirai. More than 100 members of Tsvangirai's political party, however, remain in police custody...
...entered, however, is markedly different from where it has been before. The concept of the American Dream is not only in the midst of a reevaluation, the morality of aspects of that Dream is in question. If, in coming years, the old unbridled pursuit of happiness (corporate greed, sub-prime mortgages) comes to be synonymous with a decaying economy and an injured American spirit, might this threaten the boundless optimism to which Pepsi has tied itself? Will the benefits of identifying the Pepsi brand so closely with Obama’s clarion call for a new era of hope carry...
...this Lieberman, and where did he come from? Actually, from the same place as Livni and Netanyahu - from Likud. "Lieberman was Netanyahu's chief of staff when Bibi was Prime Minister," a veteran Likudnik told me. "He and Tzipi were also very close." Lieberman left Netanyahu's staff, turning right, in the late 1990s; Livni turned left, joining Ariel Sharon's moderate Kadima party. But Livni made it clear that she would welcome Lieberman into a governing coalition if she won, which says something about the state of moderation in Israeli politics these days. In the hours after the election...
...Soviet roots to form a political base, founding the Zionist Forum for Soviet Jewry during the mid-1980s. He used this to launch himself into a prominent role in the Likud party, serving as the party's director from 1993 to 1996 and in the office of the prime minister from 1996 to 1997. • Founded the Yisreal Beitenu party in 1999 as an offshoot to Likud, when he was angered by concecessions the party was making to Palestinians...
...Gaza conflict have revealed the scale of the challenge facing U.S. President Barack Obama in jump-starting Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts. Israeli voters tacked to the right, and the government that results from Tuesday's election will be, if anything, even less inclined than the current government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to conclude a two-state peace agreement with the Palestinian leadership. (Of course, the year of talks about talks between Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas failed to yield any progress.) Meanwhile, the Gaza war cemented the stature of Hamas as the dominant political force among Palestinians...