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Sunday's run-off election confirmed the general thrust of the first round of voting - albeit without the landslide expected by the UMP. Riding the wake of Sarkozy's popularity, UMP and allied conservative candidates retained their domination of parliament, winning 344 seats of the legislature?s 577 total. But that victory also saw the UMP lose 46 of its outgoing seats to the Socialists, who surprisingly boosted their ranks from 148 to 186 seats. Though other leftist parties like the Greens and Communists wilted to around a collective 23, the overall result handed the opposition 227 seats. Sarkozy...
...Human geopolitics aside, what many wanted to know was just how common this kind of gang war is among species. Does such comparatively organized thrust and counterthrust occur routinely in nature, or were these unusually clever critters...
...Inside the car the air was thick with the mingled scents of diesel and roses. The air conditioning had been shut off to stop the car from overheating in the crawling traffic. Disembodied hands thrust camera phones through the open windows. Bottles of cold mango juice, Chaudhry's favorite, were shoved into the back seat. When he reached out to shake hands with the crowd they kissed his knuckles instead. When he rolled up the window to stop the flood of rose petals, they kissed the glass. Aitzaz Ahsan, Chaudhry's lawyer and driver for the day, couldn...
Like many other Palestinians, Omar is impressed by the honesty and focus of the Islamists. But he has doubts that the new, religious thrust of the resistance movement will lead to peace or a fair deal with Israel. For now, he says, it has only led to fighting among Palestinians. "The Koran says that if you kill your brother, you go straight to hell--and this is what we're doing," he says, outraged by recent news reports from Gaza of Hamas and Fatah militiamen killing each other in a power struggle. He thinks Palestinians should...
...power relations stems from her meditations on politics, she says. She is currently pursuing her political interests while she works for the independent news program Democracy Now! and conducts research for a book about wealth. This interest in politics is not distinct from her art.“The thrust of the things I put my energies into are organizing more politically motivated things,” she says. “I studied Arabic, took human rights classes and religion classes, and so there was where most of my focus was. So politics is important me, something I think...