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...politicized." A case in point, he says, is Russia and Ukraine. "Russia doesn't care if, say, Bosnia wins, but if Ukraine wins, it's a scandal." Ukraine and Russia have been scrapping ferociously over gas and oil for two winters in a row. (In a slight rule change, Eurovision is re-introducing a pool of judges to try to ameliorate any unfairness that may arise from the popular vote...
...agreements were "legal." In a moment of lucidity, Lawrence Summers, a former Harvard president who is now the Obama financial czar said that abrogating contracts would led to a precedent that would ripple through the legal system and cause business and the public to lose confidence in the rule of law. To hear Summers talk the action would be worse the Lincoln's suspension of the right of habeas corpus. (See photos of the troubled economy...
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...ruling triggered the collapse of the younger Sharif's Punjab provincial government as Zardari moved swiftly to impose Governor's Rule, handing over control of the only province his coalition did not control to a key ally, Salmaan Taseer. The Sharifs have since been mounting public rallies, inflaming opposition to Zardari and gathering support for the long march. While he appears to have won popular support for the move, more discriminating observers believe that Sharif's calls for an independent judiciary are a tactic. Neither the PPP nor Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) have an attractive track...
...Critics of Zardari charge that he is unwilling to reinstate Chaudhry out of a fear that the independent-minded judge, who harried Musharraf's military rule in its last year, would revive corruption cases against the President. The government counters that Chaudhry has become "too politicized" and could paralyze their administration with his enthusiasm for judicial activism. But given the momentum generated by lawyers, Sharif supporters and other segments of the opposition and media, it is difficult to see how Zardari can forge a path out of this crisis without restoring Chaudhry to his old office...