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What has to be making them nervous is that more and more of the Democratic establishment, particularly on Capitol Hill, is breaking rank with the Clintons?despite the fact that she is leading in the polls and, if elected, may be disinclined to forgive turncoats. Kennedy's defection followed those of 2004 Democratic nominee John Kerry (along with many of his biggest fund raisers) and Vermont's Pat Leahy. Obama also counts among his growing list of supporters Senators such as Tim Johnson, Kent Conrad, Ben Nelson and Claire McCaskill, as well as governors Janet Napolitano and Kathleen Sebelius...
...share of new recruits labeled "high quality" by the Army - those with at least a high-school diploma and who rank in the top half of the military's qualification test - has also dropped markedly since the Iraq war began, from 56.2% in 2005 to 44.6% last year. Recruits from families with annual incomes below $60,000 are over-represented in uniform, the study says, while those from families earning more are under-represented. The higher-income, better-educated recruits are especially prized by the Army because they have the skills needed to master the increasingly complex equipment that...
Zuma's extraordinary comeback--he was recently endorsed by the ANC Women's League--is testament to the anger the aloof Mbeki arouses in the party's rank and file. At the ANC conference, delegates booed him and drowned out his allies with songs supporting Zuma, whose rejection by South Africa's élite has made him a hero to the poor. The constitution prevents Mbeki from running for re-election, but Zuma will also be barred if he is convicted of corruption. That means South Africa's leadership could hinge on whether its new top politician...
...owners. Viktor Semyonov, deputy industry director at the Ministry of Industry and Energy in Moscow, says the number of cars sold in Russia topped 2 million in 2006 - a 20% increase - and was up 28% in the first half of 2007. If growth rates continue, Russia could rank fifth in the world in sales by 2010, overtaking England, France and Italy, Bonchev says...
...education. In popular perception, the aloof and bookish Mbeki's exclusion of Zuma from the government was an echo of the exclusion of South Africa's poor from the fruits of South Africa's boom. Business Day editorialized that "the growing social distance between the ANC leaders and the rank and file" mirrored the way "ANC public representatives have become estranged from the poor black communities they are supposed to represent." There was a "disconnect" between South Africa's ruling party and the country. "Before there can be a new dawn in the ANC, the old first...