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...Nobody is safe in Zimbabwe. There is no security, no rule of law. I am praying for my country." NELSON CHAMISA Zimbabwean opposition spokesman and M.P., after he was attacked and severely beaten by eight men alleged to be members of President Robert Mugabe's government intelligence agency
...country widely perceived as one of the world's most corrupt, the most dramatic aspect of Ahmed's rule is his antigraft campaign against the establishment. So far, more than 160 senior politicians, top civil servants and security officials have been arrested on suspicion of graft and other economic crimes. The roundup has netted former ministers from the two main political parties and, most recently, even Zia's own son Tareque Rahman. Last week Rahman, 40, appeared in court to face a charge (which he denies) that he extorted $147,000 from the owner of a Dhaka construction firm...
...Pillsbury says. “It’s a language I think is important to learn.”While most Harvard students equate TFs with graduate students who spare just enough time to teach sections and hold office hours, the Swahili arrangement is an exception to the rule. Despite their youth, students say the TFs are capable and appreciate their willingness to relate on both an academic and a personal level.“It’s more like a student-student relationship, but one just has more to share,” says freshman TF Stephen...
...political rule book says a pro-choice former New York City mayor married to wife No. 3 cannot possibly win the Republican presidential nomination - not as long as the G.O.P. remains the preferred party of small towns and social conservatives...
...However, the political rule book has been stuffed into a shredder this year. Come summer of 2008, one or both parties will likely fire it from a confetti gun. A million fluttery pieces of conventional wisdom will swirl around a nominee or nominees once thought to be impossible: a woman, a black man, a guy in his 70s, a Mormon, a Hispanic, a Baptist preacher who used to be 100 lbs. overweight. Who knows? This is the year to bet on something unusual happening, and few things in politics are more unusual than Rudolph Giuliani - "America's mayor," the rock...