Word: washingtonization
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...specific charges against individual senators. "How can there be corruption if no one is corrupt? That's like saying the gang is corrupt but none of the gangsters are." And on and on the Senate?s head GOP fund-raiser went, joined variously by Utah Republican Robert Bennett and Washington GOPer Slade Gorton, both mentioned on McCain?s web site as rather pliant targets of soft-money donations. And thus was Thursday frittered away...
...general's problem is that his coup, which was provoked by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's decision to fire him, is unconstitutional, and restoring civilian government would put the generals at risk of prosecution. His failure to produce a credible civilian administration leaves Washington and its allies facing an uncomfortable choice: Does the West opt to isolate and pressurize an unpredictable military junta in a newly nuclear power that exists in a perpetual state of low-key hostilities with its nearest neighbor; or does it work with General Musharraf in the hope that he can be coaxed back onto...
Billing it as a "college invasion" weekend, the organizers originally expected about 50 students to make the trek to New Hampshire. In the end, over 150 students from 19 universities, some as far south as George Washington University and William and Mary, joined Harvard canvassers over Columbus Day weekend...
...took control of key facilities all over the country. The coup followed Nawaz?s decision earlier in the day to fire armed forces chief General Parvez Musharaf. "The conflict between the generals and Nawaz dates back to the prime minister?s decision in the summer, under pressure from Washington, to order his army to end its Kashmir incursion," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. "That decision was terribly unpopular in the army and in Pakistani society more generally, and may have precipitated Nawaz?s downfall...
...headache for the U.S. "Despite Kashmir, there had been some optimism that dialogue between Nawaz and [India?s Prime Minister Atal Bihari] Vajpayee could improve relations, but a military government in Pakistan is likely to be a lot more belligerent toward India," says Rahman. "A coup would also signal Washington?s waning influence over the Pakistani military ? the U.S. explicitly warned against the military seizing power only three weeks ago." Rhetoric aside, however, a military government may be cautious about dramatically changing Pakistan?s foreign relations. Even if they?re more defiant of Washington, Pakistan?s generals remain fairly beholden...