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...while Australia's use of Internet politicking has grown, it remains well behind the U.S., where massive fundraising, "town hall" debates and even candidacy announcements take place online. Young, the Queensland Liberal Party's campaign chairman from 1995-97, says the Net's real heft is its ability to spread key messages cheaply and easily, with old media then reporting its doings. "It's like malaria," he says. "In the mosquito it does nothing, but once it's infected a human it can spread. The Net is the way of spreading" the message...
...give up his military command. His regime is already promising that elections will go ahead in January, by which time a Musharraf-Bhutto alliance may be firmly in place. If Musharraf lasts that long, that is. Indeed, within days of the declaration of emergency, rumors began to spread of a coup backed by Pakistan's new vice chief of army staff, General Ashfaq Kyani, Musharraf's heir apparent. Rumors are commonplace in Pakistani politics, and Kyani is a loyalist. Still, for many Pakistanis--even those fed up with military dictators--the rumors brought a glimmer of hope. Abida Hussain...
Penn’s offense, meanwhile, has struggled mightily in the switch to a spread attack of new offensive coordinator Bill Schmitz. Other than a 59-point outburst against Columbia and 42 points against Dartmouth, the two weakest defenses in the Ivies, the Quakers have scored 17 points or fewer in every game, including two games with just seven points...
...Hailey's ballot after winning a ruling in federal district court that overturned Hailey's law preventing nonresidents from circulating petitions. "This was the least funded campaign in history," he says. "I spent maybe 20 bucks. I got the signatures on the petitions on my own dime. I spread the word through e-mail and phone calls and posting on blogs, I printed some fliers off my computer, photocopied them at Kinko's and put them under car windshield wipers on Monday...
...came to a decision. Musharraf, apparently, wasn't willing to wait. On Saturday Musharraf declared emergency rule, sacked the Chief Justice, put the other justices under house arrest and shut down the country's independent television stations. While Musharraf announced that emergency law was necessary to contain the spread of extremism, his government's crackdown on lawyers, human rights campaigners, judges and media made it clear that his real target was a civil society and a judiciary willing - and increasingly able - to challenge his power...