Word: retainers
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...present investigative documents detailing government plans for skewing the vote in its favor when she died. Nobody was expecting Musharraf's Pakistan Muslim League-Qaid (PML-Q) to receive a landslide; rather, Bhutto's report suggested, rigging would ensure that the government party would simply get enough votes to retain a majority in parliament. Analysts predict that if polls are indeed conducted with no manipulation, Bhutto's PPP will gain the most votes, followed by rival and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), and finally Musharraf's party. If PPP and PML-N form...
...Samak, voted the most hated civilian in a newspaper poll after Black May, retain such solid support? Chris Baker, co-author of Thaksin: The Business of Politics, says Samak is a hit among lower-middle-class citizens - they admire his strong persona and see him as someone who gets things done. Small shopkeepers, taxi drivers and day laborers love tuning in to Samak's television and radio political talk shows - and his immensely popular cooking programs - to hear him sound off and bash others. "He's entertainment," Baker says...
...Zuma's supporters expect him to complete Mbeki's humiliation at the next general election in 2009 when they expect he will win the ANC's nomination to succeed Mbeki as President of South Africa. Although Mbeki is constitutionally prevented from seeking a third term, he sought to retain the party leadership in order to influence his succession - and to exclude his bitter rival, Zuma...
...Romney needs voters like Gettemy, who is an Evangelical Christian. Evangelicals make up 40% of Iowa caucus-goers, and while it's clear that Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor and an ordained Southern Baptist minister, is their new favorite, Romney just needs to retain a portion of them, along with the majority of non-Evangelical voters, to win Iowa. Nearly two-thirds, or 62%, of Iowa Evangelicals support Huckabee, according to a Dec. 10 Rasmussen poll of 789 likely G.O.P. caucus-goers. That's up from 48% of Evangelicals in the same poll two weeks ago. Overall Huckabee leads Romney...
...announcing the decision, “justice is, and must always be, colorblind”—an impossibility when the use of a drug associated with one community is punished much more harshly than the use of a very similar drug favored by another. Nevertheless, we retain many qualms with national drug and mandatory minimum sentencing laws. Although they stop short of addressing all of them, the Supreme Court and Sentencing Commission decisions do take a positive step by empowering judges to consider every case individually and by helping to close the gap between punishments for power...