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...During her four years at Harvard, Benazir Bhutto ’73, the shy girl from Eliot House known as “Pinkie,” prepared for her rise as a political trailblazer. As turbulence rocks her home country after her assassination on Thursday, Dec. 27, classmates remember Bhutto as a student driven by her love for Pakistan and set apart by the vigor of her convictions...
...Romney's best chance to succeed on Thursday depends less on turning out the analytical voters than in figuring out what tumblers clicked to link the heads and hearts of those at his rallies. He may already have done so. Since Huckabee's article in Foreign Affairs, in which he criticized Bush for an "arrogant bunker mentality," Romney's speeches have been peppered with careful defenses of the current Administration. He says he doesn't know "if the Governor was joking" in the article, "but now isn't the time to mock our President." Even as he offers slightly limp...
...David Welch, the Pastor Council's director, has been traveling through Iowa to educate religious leaders about their legal rights to motivate evangelicals to attend the caucuses. He has provided churches with phone scripts and a automated phone calling service so pastors can encourage their members to turn out Thursday night. "God's word directs us in Exodus 18:21 to choose for rulers 'just men who will rule in the fear of God,'" reads one sample script. "We do that here by attending our precinct caucuses and bringing our faith and values with...
...homes, with many others pouring over the border into Uganda. On Tuesday, a mob set fire to a church where hundreds of Kikuyu were sheltering in the town of Eldoret, burning 50 alive. The fear is that the last four days may be a taste of worse to come. Thursday will see an unprecedented showdown between the government and the opposition in Nairobi's city center. Opposition leader Raila Odinga has called for a million of his supporters to converge on Uhuru Park and anoint him the "people's President," to protest an election he claims was rigged...
...rehearsed by Orange Democratic Movement leaders prior to the general elections." That charge made explicit the specter now haunting what has historically been one of Africa's most stable and tourist-friendly nations - that it might descend into the kind of ethnic slaughter seen in Rwanda in 1994. On Thursday, Kenya will confront those fears...