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When you're on the lookout for lemurs - the unusually cute and endangered group of primates found only on the African island of Madagascar - it helps to have good eyes (lemurs are small), sharp ears (they rustle the trees) and a keen nose (they have an unmistakable smell...
...supposed to be a triumphant week for Asif Ali Zardari. Inaugurated as Pakistan's new President on Saturday, the sharp-suited, silver-tongued and often controversial widower of Benazir Bhutto was then to fly to New York City to make his debut on the world stage by addressing the United Nations General Assembly. Instead, he finds himself struggling to maintain his political footing in the face of contending pressures that threaten to knock him off balance...
...strategist Alex Castellanos predicted a victory for Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, in a talk at the Institute of Politics yesterday afternoon. “This is the strangest election that I’ve ever seen,” Castellanos said, citing the unprecedented media scrutiny and sharp turns that have marked both the primary and general elections. Castellanos, an émigré from Cuba and an IOP Fellow this semester, praised the bottom-up organization of the Obama campaign and its effectiveness in mobilizing support. He dubbed Obama’s grassroots call for change...
Japan's ruling party is betting on a little attitude going a long way. On Sept. 22, the Liberal Democratic Party gave itself a personality injection by electing Taro Aso, a Roman Catholic, "manga"-loving conservative with a wry smile and a sharp tongue, as its new president. The LDP must now wait to see if Aso's ascendance will be enough for the party to regain the five-decade legislative stranglehold it lost last year in the Diet...
...convince Britain to seek a political settlement with the IRA. In 2005, a former Lebanese prime minister in 2005 was killed by a car bomb that provoked a cascade of events that led to Hizballah becoming the de facto sovereign authority in Lebanon. Or, on a happier side, the sharp drop off in car-bombs in Iraq has averted a civil war. And the Oklahoma City truck bombing effectively destroyed the right wing insurgency Tim McVeigh wanted to rally...