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She did something even better last week. In the most impressive electoral sweep by any British party since 1945, Thatcher's Conservatives won 397 seats in the new 650-member Parliament, giving the Prime Minister a thumping majority of 144 seats over the combined opposition parties. The Labor Party, by...
Thatcher campaigned like a politician fighting to save her career, even though victory seemed so certain that London bookmakers stopped taking bets on the outcome five days before the election. Hearing the rumblings of a landslide, the Prime Minister was striving not just I for an improvement on her 34...
President Pervez Musharraf may not be up for reelection, but the unpopular former military chief knows as well as anyone that Monday's election in Pakistan is a referendum on his rule. An opposition victory could set in motion a process culminating in Musharraf's unseating - and it will very...
Still, Nawaz Sharif believes that anti-Musharraf sentiment is so strong that opposition parties will overcome minor manipulation in the polls and will still be able to form a government. "Even if the election is rigged to some degree, it won't be a problem for us," he says. "But...
There was something not quite authentic about the Super Bowl victory celebration here last week. The crowd was not rowdy football fans; it was a group of shy local women and children who are unlikely to have seen the game, but came anyway to get a free Super Bowl T...