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...liberalized the media, allowing dozens of private television channels to operate and freely criticize the government. And at first he seemed prepared to allow the judiciary to challenge the government. Unfortunately, Musharraf seemed unable to accept the logical conclusion of the project he had begun: his own departure. He spent the second half of his rule battling the very democratic forces that he had helped unleash...
...that Musharraf has gone, the country needs to come together. Too much time has been spent blaming Musharraf rather than finding solutions to Pakistan's pressing problems. Pakistan must look to the future and break decisively from its past. For Sharif and Bhutto's widower Asif Zardari, leaders of the two mainstream parties, this means avoiding a return to the vindictiveness and squabbling that characterized relations between their parties in the 1990s and undermined Pakistan's previous experiment with democracy. Their first test will be the selection of a new President, where it is essential that a nonpartisan, mutually acceptable...
...casualties. The Afghan Senate is trying to bring foreign forces under Afghan law so they can be tried for civilian casualties. Is that what you want? Afghanistan is grateful to our allies for having brought us liberation from terrorists, al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Their taxpayer money is being spent here in Afghanistan. It is money that the American and European people have worked hard to earn. The sacrifice in life by the men and women of America and our other allies - that is all recognized with immense appreciation by the Afghans. But the Afghan people have given...
...West. BMW, for one, is proceeding apace with building its sales network there: by the end of this year, it aims to have a dealership in 47 Russian cities with populations of more than 300,000. One of the biggest corporate-investment programs, by Italy's Enel - which has spent about $6 billion on an effort to become a player in Russia's electricity-generation industry - also remains on track, according to company officials. They say the firm will invest a further $3 billion on revamping and building new power plants in Russia...
...Obama is just one member of a generation of political leaders faced with a new task: honoring the contributions of their forebears without alienating the broader, multiracial audiences they need to win. I've spent part of the past year tracking dozens of these rising stars and have concluded that anyone who thinks Obama is unique is not paying attention. Consider Newark, N.J., mayor Cory Booker. His troubled city is into its third generation of African-American political leadership but not necessarily the good kind. Its previous two black mayors--Kenneth Gibson and Sharpe James--became ensnared in fraud...