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...power base in the province of Sind. While a cordon sanitaire of friends and relatives kept her insulated from critics, she made sure her public appearances received immense media coverage. Like Aquino's, Bhutto's reputation as restorer of democracy and avenger of her father could not withstand her government's weakness...
...encourage the widespread throw-the-bums-out attitude toward congressional incumbents -- the vast majority of them Democrats -- to boost the chances of Republican challengers. Asked if the anti-incumbent fever might not topple some G.O.P. members of Congress, the official confidently predicted, "I think they feel strong enough to withstand it." Many Republican strategists are not so sanguine. They fear that in next week's voting the Republicans may lose more than 10 House seats, the average for the party that holds the White House in a midterm elections...
Moreover, much as the survival of the Soviet Union in its present form is threatened by unrest among its non-Russian minorities, the Ottoman Empire ultimately could not withstand the nationalist aspirations of its non-Turkish peoples. The Greeks, aided by the English Romantic poet Lord Byron, were the first to break away in the 1820s. The last to revolt were the Arabs. Inspired by Lawrence of Arabia, they broke free of Ottoman domination during World War I, only to come under British and French rule soon afterward...
Punchees say they withstand the punching proces because of the promise of a better social life if they join. Final clubs offer a social structure that Harvard does not provide, says one club member; students can bond in an environment that crosses house and extracurricular lines...
...terrible as he plans, hiding in one of several secret Soviet-built bunkers in Baghdad while most of Iraq goes up in flames. He may be wrong in that calculation, and in believing that Iraq could take the pounding longer than the U.S. and its allies could withstand economic devastation and the arrival back home of thousands of body bags. But proving him wrong might be possible only by paying a ghastly price...