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...current one," says Wong Chin Huat, a political scientist at Monash University's Kuala Lumpur campus. Anwar puts it more bluntly. "I thought, 'Not again,'" he told TIME. "But this shows how desperate the government is. The economy is in a bad state, [parliamentarians] are crossing over to our side, there's turmoil within UMNO...
...Administration limited cross-border operations when General Pervez Musharraf was in charge in Islamabad, on the grounds that they might undermine the authority of a key ally in the war on terrorism. Musharraf's troops were meant to track down al-Qaeda commanders on the Pakistani side of the border, a task they performed fitfully. When a coalition of democratic parties came to power after elections in February, the Administration braced itself for even less help hunting terrorists. Sure enough, the new government scaled back antiterrorism operations and promised to find a political solution to the growing pro--al-Qaeda...
...problem with the media is not that they're veering to the left or to the right but that they have an addiction to presenting two sides to every issue, even when the truth lies on one side or the other. I'd much rather we make our preferences and points of view transparent than pretend we don't have them...
...report at the congress, predicting a lessening of demand in the coming 18 months, but an increase after that. "There will be short-term improvement," says Tanaka, "but after that there will be a tighter market until 2013. Demand will go back up in 2010, and although the supply side is growing, it's not as much as we want...
...first interns I met. I arrived a week late to the program, and in the meantime, P.D. had elected himself the de facto social chair our intern class, organizing happy hours at local bars several nights a week. P.D. lives on the Upper East Side, which he says is one of the only four neighborhoods that exist in Manhattan. (The others are the Upper West Side, Midtown, and the Village.) Most days, P.D. dresses like he is going sailing. Pastel shirts, pastel pants, and sailboat-laden belts are the staples of his wardrobe. He went to prep school, he explained...