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...drumbeat of potential war between the two nuclear-armed South Asian countries grew louder. And as soldiers and the political faithful took their positions, mourning, anxiety and a measure of defiance merged. For chaotic, crisis-racked Pakistan, it was a time to mourn and, perhaps, almost a time to fight...
...President Bush insists that their sacrifice and the expenditure on the wars have helped prevent a repeat of 9/11. "We could not afford to wait for the terrorists to attack again," he said last week at the Army War College. "So we launched a global campaign to take the fight to the terrorists abroad, to dismantle their networks, to dry up their financing and find their leaders and bring them to justice...
...Those diplomatic words come from a man many are expecting will put up a fight for the governor's mansion in 2010, when Lisa Madigan is also expected to run. When asked whether he would have made the same move as Lisa Madigan in trying to get the governor ousted, Birkett insisted he would not. "Illinois is currently the laughingstock of the nation," he claimed. It was a power play by the AG, he said, and one that stood little chance of success since it requires some proof that the governor is somehow incapacitated - not just allegedly corrupt...
Blagojevich, Rod •repeated declarations of intention to "fight" by are accompanied by repeated declarations of having "done nothing wrong...
...groomed no successor. The Parliament's speaker Aboubacar Sompare - who by law should have stepped in as leader-urged soldiers not directly involved in the putsch to disown Camara. But Guinea's 10 million people and its rank and file soldiers appeared to have little stomach for a fight they would very likely lose. (Read TIME's Top 10 News Stories of the Year...