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...especially now that terrorist forces seem to have developed a keen eye for political calendars. The Islamists charged with slaughtering more than 200 Madrid commuters struck on March 11. Three days later Spanish voters tossed out the ruling party allied with the U.S. in the war in Iraq. Incoming Socialist Party Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who called the Iraq occupation a "fiasco," reiterated a campaign promise to pull Spain's 1,300 peacekeepers out of Iraq by June unless the U.N. takes over operations there. In Iraq insurgents attacked several hotels...
...victory cries go, it was less than rousing: "This is not a return to grace," French Socialist official Jean-Christophe Cambadélis said last week, "but rather the end of disgrace." Given his party's dramatic gains in the first round of balloting for French regional councils, you might have expected a bit more bravado. After all, it was the Socialists' first big win in two humiliating, ineffective years. But Cambadélis and his colleagues know their victory has little to do with any surge in the party's electoral appeal and a lot to do with rising...
...Given his political background, it wasn’t unexpected,” said Daniel J. Epstein, a graduate student in political science. Garzon served from 1993 to 1994 as a member of the Socialist Party in the lower house of the Spanish Cortes—the national legislature in Spain...
Other Harvard groups such as the Harvard College Democrats, the Harvard Socialist Alternative Club (HSAC) and the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice (HIPJ) converged on the intersection of Arlington and Boylston streets where they faced off against the Harvard Republican Club (HRC) and other Bush supporters...
...It’s not just Bush the guy, it’s the Democratic and Republican Parties in the U.S.,” said Johnhenry R. Gonzalez ’06, a member of the Harvard Socialist Alternative Club. “I’m very interested in seeing who is open to the very controversial idea that the Democrats are not an alternative to Bush...