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...Manuel Zelaya and interim leader Roberto Micheletti signed a U.S.-brokered accord on Oct. 30, resolution of their long-running standoff was delayed again. Under the deal, the Honduran congress must decide whether to reinstate Zelaya for the remainder of his term; a legislative committee declined to call a special session for the vote, opting to await an opinion from the Supreme Court on the matter...
...title this year would carry special sentiment for Nyamekye and his senior teammates, who won the Ivies at the beginning of their careers...
...centrist political positions - not least by implying that they are not political positions at all but occupy a happy medium between the nutjobs. Meanwhile, conservatives see moderate bias as liberal, and liberals see it as conservative - letting journalists conclude that it's not bias at all. (See TIME's special report "Obama After a Year: What's Changed, and What Hasn...
...sign that Republicans still have a long way to go to regain their political and ideological footing, Democrat Bill Owens managed to win what turned out to be a wild special election to fill an open congressional seat in upstate New York. Republicans had divided between their own party's moderate nominee and a Conservative Party challenger who had won the endorsements of many high-profile national GOP leaders, including former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and talk-show host Glenn Beck. Three days before the election, GOP nominee Dede Scozzafava abruptly announced she was suspending her campaign, and subsequently...
What this all speaks to is the special dilemma that the regime now faces. The Islamic Republic in its current form cannot be the Islamic Republic without its current slate of anti-Western commemorations. Yet, by continuing to hold these ritualized rallies and marches, the regime is exposing itself to counter-protests that are steadily undermining the government's authority. On Wednesday there were reports that the state's keynote speaker at the embassy rally was drowned out by the chants of nearby protesters. Worse still from the prospective of Iran's leaders, these chants were picked...