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...facing its own branding challenge in selling young voters on an 81-year-old party leader, L.K. Advani, as its prime-ministerial candidate. In one now infamous image, Advani was photographed lifting dumbbells at a gym in Gandhinagar, his home constituency, as if to demonstrate his vigor. The party has set up a website and blog for Advani and is relying heavily on Internet and text-message advertising. "My young colleagues who have created this website told me that a political portal without a blog is like a letter without a signature," Advani wrote in his first post, noting that...
...founder of one of India's first budget airlines, is promising to bring corporate efficiency and military discipline to city government. Meera Sanyal, the head of ABN Amro in India, was motivated by the November terrorist attacks to run for office in south Mumbai. Even Advani, the BJP's prime-ministerial candidate, is facing an independent challenge, from Mallika Sarabhai, a dancer and prominent social activist...
...advantage over Obama. She was a Prime Minister in a parliamentary system, not a President who has to handle a Congress that is constitutionally co-equal. Not until her last term, when she lost the confidence of much of the Conservative Party over European policy, did she ever have to worry about whether her foot soldiers in the House of Commons would back her on anything important. Obama has no such luxury. By comparison with the British political system, that of the U.S. is slow, messy, fragmented and remarkably open to lobbying by powerful interest groups. That does not make...
...trip to France in August. Sure, like most politicians, sooner or later, she was quite at home in the glittery salons of wealth and fame, but Mrs. Thatcher remained remarkably true to those she had set out to serve. They repaid her loyalty, making her the longest-serving British Prime Minister since the 1820s. There's a lesson there...
...threat of union, however, has now led to a parliamentary crisis in the young Himalayan republic. On Monday, in a dramatic climax to a televised address to the nation, Nepal's Maoist Prime Minister Prachanda resigned after the President thwarted his move to sack the country's army chief. The army chief, Gen. Rukmangad Katawal, who had close ties to the fallen monarchy, was against taking in "politically indoctrinated" soldiers - a clear reference to Prachanda's Maoist brethren-in-arms. Since the peace accord, the Army has opposed full integration, fearful that the Maoists would then insinuate themselves into...