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That could transform politics in Senegal, where even folks sufficiently long in the tooth to have voted in each of the country's general elections have seen only two parties returned to power. The leftist Socialist Party held sway for 40 years. That rule was broken in 2000 by Wade's liberal Senegalese Democratic Party (pds). Although back in power, it's by no means clear that the pds should look forward to repeating its predecessor's four-decade stint. Despite solid economic growth - 5% on average - during Wade's first term, most people interviewed in the streets say they...
...Bayrou, the popular leader of the Union for French Democracy and former Education Minister. He has been rising in the polls more rapidly than Nicolas Sarkozy and Ségolčne Royal and is positioned to determine who will be France's next President. He will be able to sway votes to either Sarkozy or Royal--or even become Jacques Chirac's successor...
...that he will be forced from office. But a loss of support from his moderate base could deepen his dependence on fundamentalist parties, which are staunch supporters of the Taliban. If the protests against Musharraf continue, he will be even less inclined to crack down on the militants holding sway in Talibanistan--grim news for the U.S. and its allies and good news for their foes throughout the region. Says a senior U.S. military official in Afghanistan: "The bottom line is that the Taliban can do what they want in the tribal areas because the [Pakistani] army is not going...
...Harvard’s presidents have long sighed at the entrenched fiefdoms—academic departments, certain deans, senior faculty members—that hold sway in times of change at the University. Those complaints are most acute when it comes to undergraduate education...
...While the new government and its platform are unlikely to sway the U.S. and Israel, it may yet gain traction because of doubts among other stakeholders that continuing the blockade will yield a positive result. And the fact that it comes tied to a renewed Saudi-led Arab peace process, one which both the U.S. and Israel have pondered exploring further, may raise the temptation to engage the new Palestinian government, imperfect as it may be, and closely monitor its behavior and its evolution...