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...many contenders this go-around. The more complicated answer lies inside the Republican Party of Texas, where Perry has nurtured issues dear to social conservatives but alienated the older wing by pushing a new business tax and a privatized toll road plan. Republican voters, as a result, will split their vote this year between Perry and Carole Keeton Strayhorn, the 67-year-old Republican state comptroller who is running as an independent...
Once a state phone and mail monopoly, the sprawling Bundespost had more employees than the German army had soldiers. In the 1990s, the government split it into three companies--Deutsche Telekom, Deutsche Post and the Postbank--and floated them on the stock market. The most successful, Deutsche Post, grew into a global logistics company. Again, the critical expansion was in the U.S., where it bought freight company...
...might be right. A poll in the Evansville paper that put Ellsworth significantly ahead in early October also asked why his supporters planned to vote for him. Only a third said it was because "he is my kind of candidate." The other two-thirds were split about evenly between wanting to defeat Hostettler and wanting to help the Democrats regain control of the House...
...finally had enough. In a press conference in Baghdad today, Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and General George Casey announced that the Iraqi government has agreed to a timeline to take over security responsibilities, quell sectarian violence, split oil revenues and negotiate a truce with the Sunni insurgents. According to Khalilzad and Casey, it will all take place within 18 months. And how does anyone know the Iraqis can achieve all that? Because we say they have to. "Iraqi leaders must step up," Khalilzad says, "to achieve key political and security milestones on which they have agreed...
...Hardly surprisingly, Lieberman's arrival has forced Olmert's senior coalition partner, the equally embattled Defense Minister and Labor Party leader Amir Peretz, to reexamine its own position. A split has already developed between members who want to withdraw their 19 Knesset seats from Olmert's government - Arab members are particularly appalled by their new coalition mates - and those who think it best to stay. Labor will decide its course on Sunday, but the Lieberman dilemma has simply highlighted the sense that the party no longer knows where it stands. Israel's campaigns in Lebanon and Gaza, and the increasingly...