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...mention an assault on Christmas. "Ambition has overwhelmed common sense," said Martin, who had already announced he would schedule an election during the February doldrums. But the opposition parties, who held 173 seats of 308 in the House of Commons, decided they would never have a better opportunity to strike. For Harper, 46, a longtime Tory firebrand who began his career in Calgary in the oil-rich western province of Alberta, it was a date with destiny. The media-averse leader is staking his second and possibly last try for high office on the gamble that Canadians are finally ready...
...that some 40% of the electorate voted against him in a recall referendum in August 2004. But Chavez's critics have not been able to field any serious alternatives to the President, and have put themselves through humiliating exercises, including a bungled coup, a failed two-month oil strike and a series of local electoral defeats. Most recently, the opposition parties pulled out of the last legislative elections, claiming the vote would be manipulated, and allowed Chavez's allies to take control of all seats in the country's congress. Meanwhile, the President has shored up and increased his popularity...
...Sept. 12, 2001, there wasn't a person in Washington who did not think that it was only a matter of days or weeks or at most months before the jihadists would strike again. It has been more than four years. Al-Qaeda knows its inability to repeat 9/11 is a blow to its prestige and pretensions of leading a global jihad. Anyone can put a bomb in a Bali discothčque. But in more than four years, al-Qaeda has not been able to do anything in America even on the scale of Madrid or London...
...YORK—As students streamed into New York City for the holidays, many found their trek home significantly delayed and complicated by the transit strike declared early in the morning at the beginning of break. Over 30,000 bus and subway employees walked off from their jobs on Dec. 20, effectively crippling the city’s transportation network for nearly three days. The workers’ union reached an agreement with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) on Dec. 22 and agreed to return to work.But as the strike began with no immediate resolution in sight, the city fell...
...SPEECHES MILDLY, AS WAS HIS custom, then rose from a wooden Sunday school table to argue that they all underestimated their problem. "We are in serious trouble," he said. The Memphis riot had discredited nonviolent tenets at the heart of their movement. If they simply abandoned the garbage strike, a presumption of violence would follow them to the national stage with greatly magnified risk and opposition. Therefore, said King, he felt by no means committed to either Memphis or Washington--regardless of what he told the press--unless first convinced that they could restore the integrity of nonviolent protest. This...