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...future. Over a year and a half ago, Moeen's army waded into a turbulent political crisis, postponed parliamentary elections and helped install a caretaker government of state-appointed bureaucrats known as "advisers," headed by a former World Bank executive, Fakhruddin Ahmed. Since then, Bangladesh has remained under emergency rule: civil liberties have taken a hit and thousands of suspected troublemakers picked up in midnight sweeps. Behind all this, it's commonly understood that Moeen and the military really run the show. The Harvard-trained general was made army chief just under three years ago and is coy about...
...ahead as planned by the end of this year, the optimism that first greeted his arrival on "1/11," as the epochal event is known there, is gone. Ever since achieving independence from Pakistan in 1971, impoverished, unfortunate Bangladesh has slumped down its path toward democracy. When not under the rule of autocratic generals - as it was twice in the past - it has been the province of two mammoth, bickering political parties, the Awami League (AL) and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). Their legacy of craven politicking and brazen plundering buoyed the current army-backed regime into power. But few believe...
...election on June 27. The vote is deemed necessary because even though MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai came out ahead in the presidential poll on March 29, according to official results, he didn't get an outright majority. Earlier hopes that the vote might end Mugabe's 28-year rule quickly evaporated. Instead, the first-round results turned out to be a cue for Zimbabwe's security services and pro-Mugabe militias to rampage across the country...
...regime is not shy about its embrace of violence. The MDC, say Zimbabwe's rulers, is an instrument of a Western plot to restore the white rule it overthrew at independence in 1980. On June 13, Mugabe was quoted by the Herald as saying that Zimbabwe's voters had made a "mistake" by giving Tsvangirai a majority, one that "can cause a lot of suffering for the people if we go back to war." The militias had asked him if they could do just that, he added. "They said this country was won by the barrel...
...playgrounds in the inner cities of America are open to all comers. It doesn't matter where you're from or what you look like, whether you play for the L.A. Lakers or just got out of prison. If you can play, just show up and prove it. The rule on the playground is simple: winner stays on, loser sits...