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...majority of voters. In the presidential election of 1844, when slave-owner James Polk defeated widely-respected abolitionist Henry Clay, Polk’s fellow abolitionist James Birney accounted for the narrow difference in many states that Clay lost, and probably cost abolitionists the presidency decades before the Civil War. In 1912, William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, and Eugene Debs created a jumbled electoral confusion and allowed Woodrow Wilson to waltz to the presidency despite the fact that Taft and Roosevelt combined had won far more votes for a more conservative agenda...
Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi has offered some signs that the Curia is responding, including his posting updated rules on the Internet about reporting abusive priests to the civil authorities and a hint that the Pope may meet with victims during his trip this weekend to the island nation of Malta. Still, Lombardi and others tend not to have easy access to the Pope, who is ultimately the one who must take the lead...
...Meanwhile, Bakiyev's brother Zhanybek, the ousted head of the security service, has warned of a civil war if anyone tries to storm their compound. Is the only country in the world that hosts military bases for both Russia and the U.S. again on the edge of a bloody civil confrontation...
Zhanybek Bakiyev, who is now in charge of his brother's personal security force, reacted on Monday with the threat of civil war. "I think it would be wrong. It would be bloodshed, a civil war," he told Russia's RIA Novosti news agency. "If [the interim government's special forces] are willing to test their skills, we are ready to meet them to fight. But we are also ready for dialogue." (See a brief history of Kyrgyzstan...
Despite the belligerent words, Paul Quinn-Judge, the International Crisis Group's director in Central Asia and a former Moscow bureau chief for TIME, says a civil war between the north and south of the country is very unlikely, even if Bakiyev has resources at his disposal to resist the new government. "Bakiyev may be bluffing. He may be trying to increase pressure on the government to make some concessions. But if he does decide to cause problems, his biggest weapon is not public sympathy - he has very little of that - but a very large amount of money, which...