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...With elections now looming, it's not clear how the political stalemate will be resolved. The AKP, sounding a note of defiance, hopes to strengthen its majority to the point where it can vote in Gul on its own. The opposition-and the army-is betting that voters will shy away from the perceived Islamist threat and force a coalition of some sort. Both outcomes are possible. But if the AKP returns to office more powerful than before, the army may feel compelled to act again, this time by taking to the streets. Either way, the campaign is likely...
...affiliate groups, which include the South Asian Journal and the South Asian Women’s Collective. In total, SAA and its affiliate groups have about 320 members, Maheshwari said. SAA’s new leaders said they also plan to continue the group’s attempts to strengthen South Asian studies at Harvard by convincing the University to hire more professors with expertise in the field. Shah said she was happy with the SAA membership’s decision to choose Dandiya and Maheshwari as the group’s next leaders. “Over the years...
...there is the main stuff of the short campaign ahead. For Sarkozy, the answer is a more forceful hand in immigration and policing coupled with a new flexibility in the labor market. For Royal, the answer lies in a plethora of government programs that would strengthen the role of the state and reinforce social solidarity. Whichever of them wins on May 6 faces a singular challenge: to deliver on a promise for radical change from within one of two parties that have each so consistently disappointed that neither has been able to hold a parliamentary majority for two consecutive terms...
...enter into the vaccines market and strengthen its foothold in future drug sales, British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is snapping up MedImmune of Gaithersburg, Md., for a cool $15.6 billion...
...especially if it amounts to nothing more than new evidence that the White House used political considerations in picking which U.S. attorneys to fire. In the end, political consideration in the appointment of federal prosecutors is not only common, it's practically a Washington tradition. And though it would strengthen the Democrats' accusations of cronyism in the Bush Administration's handling of the Justice Department, any revelation short of evidence of actual obstruction of justice will be a welcome distraction from the new, much more troubling storyline that the U.S. attorney firings generated this week...