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...particularly important given that rural Malaysia is the National Front's core constituency. And even in the urban areas, Abdullah's renowned blandness could actually help him. "The thing about him is that no one hates him," says Liew Chin Tong, an election-strategy adviser for the opposition Democratic Action Party. "That makes it hard to rally support against...
...Abdullah's critics aren't trying. Yes, farmer's incomes have increased, they say, but so has the cost of living, particularly in urban areas. Furthermore, a U.S. recession could upset Malaysia's export-led economy. Meanwhile, the Chinese and Indian populations are speaking out against a national affirmative-action plan that favors Malays in everything from education to government contracts. Indians, who are Malaysia's poorest ethnicity, are so frustrated that they have marched by the thousands in Kuala Lumpur in recent months. "We respected [the National Front] for a long time, but they haven't helped...
...posts, and clashed with ethnic Albanian police. Student demonstrators have rallied daily along the Ibar River that divides Serb from Albanian areas in the northern Kosovo town of Mitrovica, chanting, "Kosovo is Serbia!" and "Kosovo is ours!" For Marko Jaksic, head of the Serbian National Council in Mitrovica, such action is not optional; a failure to rebel against "the formation of another Albanian state," he told a Serbian crowd in northern Kosovo, is "tantamount to treason...
...Some of the main beneficiaries of this growth have been the College’s evangelical student groups, including Athletes in Action (AIA), a fellowship of Christian athletes whose mission is “to know Christ, to grow in Christ, and to make Christ known...
When she delivered her remarks on the air, Ersoy immediately got into a fight with a fellow celebrity judge, the singer Ebru Gündes, who countered that were she to have a son, she would have no hesitation in having him "fight like a lion." "Martyrs killed in action do not die, the country will never be divided," she said. Ersoy retorted that there was no point taking refuge in clich?...