Word: unpopularity
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...Already unpopular with Sunnis - who view him as a Shi'ite partisan - he has also lost what little credibility he had with his cosectarians. As a result, his writ doesn't run very far outside of the artificial bubble of Baghdad's Green Zone...
...more than a half century, ever since the Supreme Court in its 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision outlawed school segregation. The busing battles that followed this landmark ruling were the stuff of civil rights lore. But in 1991 the court ruled that school districts could abandon that unpopular strategy and return to neighborhood schooling, even if that meant some schools would resegregate. That's what happened in many districts, and the proportion of black students attending nonwhite-majority schools has increased over the past dozen years from 66% to 73%. In some parts of the country, Latino segregation...
...international concern, Arroyo set up the six-member Melo Commission, led by a retired Supreme Court judge, to probe the killings. Some bereaved families doubt its independence and have refused to testify. This distrust is symptomatic of a profound loss of faith in Arroyo herself. She is an unpopular President, plagued by corruption scandals and slammed for her failure to improve living standards. Arroyo has condemned the killings, but she will not implicate the military?even as it implicates itself. Col. Eduardo del Rosario, head of a military antiterrorist unit called Task Force Davao, admitted to TIME earlier this year...
...Complicating matters is what Anwar calls "a global radical Islamic resurgence" that gains legitimacy from its vociferous opposition to U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Although Indonesia desperately needs to attract foreign investment, which has lagged since the bombing campaign started, President Bush remains uniformly unpopular. The U.S. is expected to roll out tens of millions of dollars in funding for health, anti-poverty and education schemes during Bush's Monday visit. But such handouts may do little to convince many Indonesians of American goodwill. "I do not trust Bush," says Mizram, a 20-year-old student who joined...
...celebrating they have done over their election victory last week, Democrats won't be taking over control of Congress with a blueprint for how to capture the biggest prize, the presidency in 2008. The reason is simple: apart from the fact that they faced an unpopular President and an unpopular ruling party both blamed for a very unpopular war, the Democrats already can't agree on why they...