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Clegg, 43 and fresh-faced, has led Britain's third party since 2007. He is multinational (his mother is Dutch; his father half Russian) and multilingual (he speaks five languages). A supporter of the European Union, he worked first at the European Commission, then as a member of the European Parliament, until he gave up being an MEP in 2004 because the traveling undermined his family life. He's a new man, and if he looks a little bleary it's probably because he's been woken by his young sons or risen early to take his wife, a high...
...March 4, a law went into effect that allowed gay couples in Mexico City to wed, despite outcries from the Roman Catholic Church and President Felipe Calderón's conservative National Action Party. With five other Latin American nations already recognizing same-sex civil unions, the region has become a major front in the gay-marriage battle. The law, passed last year by a solid majority, also grants same-sex couples the right to adopt children. Calderón called the move unconstitutional and vowed to challenge it in court...
...Lebanon. In 2003, many U.S. architects of the invasion of Iraq and the removal of Saddam Hussein hoped the events would be followed by a democratic ripple effect throughout the region. That has not yet happened. The politicians who came to power after the country's first parliamentary election five years ago have been unable to resolve core issues - from deciding how to share oil revenue to how to balance power among the country's regions and the central government and how to weld fractious religious and ethnic groups into a unified nation. (See pictures of President Bush...
There is plenty of reason to be concerned that Iraq's leaders haven't yet learned to compromise. None of the five leading political blocs are likely to emerge from the election with enough seats in parliament to form a government on their own - which means Iraqis may have to endure weeks of political wheeling and dealing. Meanwhile, Iraq's undercurrent of violence and sectarianism is resurfacing as the election nears. Dozens of bodies are turning up daily in the morgues of Baghdad and Mosul, including some with their heads cut off, a signature al-Qaeda calling card. Mortar shells...
Greening put Cornell on the scoreboard early in the first period, but Harvard was quick to respond, recording its sole goal only five minutes later. D’Agostino put the Big Red in the lead for good with his score to close the first period, finishing a rebound off of a shot from teammate Mike Devin...