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...been restored, further bolstering Labour's dominance of British politics. Yet some party stalwarts yearn for the bad old days of red-faced brawls on the conference platform. Former Labour minister and veteran firebrand Tony Benn grimaced as his well-mannered colleagues dutifully filed in for a placid afternoon session. "It's been a lovely week, almost free from politics," he says. "This is really a pre-election rally. I should have brought balloons...
...where talking is taken as a form of action, that theater most often becomes absurd: the shoe banged on the table, the smell of sulfur in the room. Venezuela's Hugo Chávez, star of last year's show, skipped the session this year, perhaps to tend to a new state-owned movie studio designed to help break "the dictatorship of Hollywood." But he did take time out to call his Iranian friend and compliment him for standing up to the Great Satan. And it all occurred in a week when Burmese monks were in the streets risking their lives...
...question-and-answer session after the speech, the president spoke about Haitians in his country...
Lebanon failed to elect a President Tuesday, continuing its drive along the abyss. A new parliamentary session is set for October 23, with the hope that a two-thirds quorum can finally be assembled by then to choose a successor to outgoing President Emile Lahoud. But his term runs out on November 24, and the chances of finding a compromise candidate, sources in Hizballah tell...
...politicians, who walked up the steps through a gauntlet of journalists as if they were actors at a high-security red-carpet ceremony. As it happened, however, the show was a dud. Meeting for the first time in over nine months, Lebanon's parliament opened today for a special session to elect a president of the republic, and then almost immediately shut down without a vote. Lebanon's political crisis continues...