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...Fernández, like her husband and their left-wing ally President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, is a combative populist who critics say is too dismissive of the legislative and judicial branches, which are still weak institutions in Latin America. Her Sunday setback "indicates that Latin America's hyperpresidentialist project, which was fueled by the economic boom, faces walls and obstacles now," says Javier Corrales, a Latin America expert who teaches political science at Amherst College in Massachusetts. Another factor is the exit of U.S. President George W. Bush, whose own bid for excessive presidential power wasn...
Ensign, Sen. John • severe setback is suffered by rumored 2012 presidential bid of after oh-so-deep regret is expressed by - and, really, how could it not have been, given the pious pronouncements of about the "sanctity" of marriage in the service of crusading against allowing gays to partake in it, and the membership of in the marital-fidelity-promoting male evangelical group the Promise Keepers, and the strident demands of for the resignations of Larry Craig and Bill Clinton in connection with their sex scandals - for a nine-month affair had by with a campaign staffer married...
...Nairobi-based Somali analyst Abshir Hassan said of Thursday's attack: "It will change a lot on the ground, and it is a major setback to the government to lose this competent Minister." The fall of Sharif's government would represent a double blow, both to prospects for peace in Somalia and to forging a bridge between the Islamic and Western worlds. Sharif was a founder of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), a hard-line Islamic law-and-order collective that briefly ruled Mogadishu for six months in 2006. The ICU succeeded in ejecting the country's warlords from...
Lacroix's chief executive, Nicolas Topiol indicated that the brand would continue, despite this setback. "Since the acquisition of Christian Lacroix SNC, we have been committed to the brand and to its high-end development," Topiol said in a statement. "We will continue to do so, but the sharp downturn of the luxury market has significantly hurt our revenues...
...associates who start their jobs a year late, the delay could have consequences in terms of earning potential and making partner, which is generally an eight-year war of attrition among the group of lawyers who start working the same year. "This will definitely be a setback for the classes of 2009 and 2010, who are now on a collision course," says James Leipold, executive director of the Washington-based National Association for Law Placement. "They'll find themselves competing for jobs and money the rest of their careers...