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...early December, Latham ascended to the ALP leadership, narrowly defeating his top rivals and promising to regain the government for the party. Closely watched with both fear and admiration, the new opposition leader steadily pushed away from Howard in polling since his ascension. Australia’s strange parliamentary system—majoritarian multi-party—means great difficulty in predicting likely election results. Most polling organizations simply give the option between the two major parties, which, for the latest results from the end of March, show the ALP at 55.5 percent against a 44.5 percent Liberal coalition...
...American presence in Iraq has proven so ineffective, U.S. troops should also resist the urge to quickly retake those cities still suffering from the recent insurgency. A hasty response with insufficient troops, which cannot adequately provide the security required, could be disastrous. We must now wait before attempting to regain control. Though allowing the cities to remain in disarray is not desirable, we cannot risk further failures and the loss of additional troops. Military strategists should hold off until the occupying powers are really ready to provide an effective security force. And, once in place, they must pursue a policy...
...desire for closer ties with the mainland will mean a flood of cheap imported produce and lower incomes and, more fundamentally, that the KMT will eventually reunify with a country they consider alien. The KMT's Yunlin chief, Huang Shang-wen, knows how his party can regain votes: "For us to win elections, we need to lean toward independence." But that would sacrifice the KMT's core supporters. Hung on the paradox, Huang is drafting his resignation letter...
Then Gamble began to take control. Her goal with 21:34 remaining, assisted by Owens, cut the deficit to 7-5, though UMass responded two minutes later to regain a three-goal lead...
...people's needs," says Dr. Amir Mohebbian, political editor of the conservative daily "Resalat." Others aren't as optimistic. "The Abadgaran are just the old wolves in new sheep's clothes," says a student leader at Tehran's Amir Kabir University. "They are the new hardline tactic to regain control over the political structures of the country...