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Off to 'Tehran' for Clooney
Zap2It.comGeorge Clooney and Grant Heslov are looking to write "Escape From Tehran," a dark comedy set up at Warner Bros. "Tehran" is just the latest in an ever-growing string of features set up at Warner Bros. for Clooney and Heslov's Smoke House shingle. Variety...Tags: Crimes, Tehran (Iran), Central Intelligence Agency, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Leatherheads (movie)
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Bhutto's son and husband take the helm of her party
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterActing in accordance with her last wishes, Benazir Bhutto's party Sunday named her 19-year-old son as its ceremonial leader and her widowed husband as the executor of its day-to-day affairs as violence that had flared in Pakistan after her assassination...Tags: Heads of State, Wars and Interventions, Texas, White House, Elections
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Pakistan's problems start at the top
Gen. Pervez Musharraf seized power in Pakistan eight years ago, claiming that the army had to step in to save the country from corrupt and incompetent politicians. Since then, he has run both the army and the government himself, with the connivance of a...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Weaponry, Washington (U.S. state), Elections, Constitutional Issues
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One coup after another
As Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf completes what is being called his second coup — eliminating opposition through emergency powers and consolidating the strong grip on rule he first seized in 1999 — it's hard to remember when Pakistan wasn't...Tags: Heads of State, Fraud, Politics, United Nations, National Government
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For Pakistanis, fired justice is symbol of defiance
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry is an unlikely folk hero. The deposed chief justice has a gruff demeanor, a hangdog face, a thick mustache, and is slightly cross-eyed. No one would call him charismatic. But the 59-year-old has rock-star status in Pakistan,...Tags: Heads of State, Human Rights, Los Angeles Times, Elections, Politics
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How India beat the odds
++++++++++++++++++++ || || ++++++++++++++++++++ At midnight on Aug. 15, 1947, a new, independent India was born on a subcontinent racked with violence, ripped apart by a bloody partition. It came into being as flames blazed across the land, as corpse-...Tags: India, Elections, Politics, Pakistan, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Musharraf pledges January elections
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Raising the prospect of an election campaign carried out under de facto martial law, President Pervez Musharraf said Sunday that balloting for a new parliament would take place in early January, but set no date for lifting...Tags: Heads of State, Wars and Interventions, Elections, National Security, Politics
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All lines lead to Delhi
Shortly before the fall of the vast, wealthy Mughal reign -- the one that managed to generate one-fifth of the world's wealth in 1600 and gave us the anglicized word "mogul" -- a leader is said to have shrugged off an impending foreign invasion by saying,...Tags: Television, Delhi (India), Entertainment, India, Politics
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Local Iraq casualties
April 9, 2004: Steven Scott Fisher of Virginia Beach, a civilian, died when his convoy was ambushed in Abu Graib, near Fallujah. April 26, 2004: Navy officers based at Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base in Virginia Beach, were killed April 24 in a...Tags: Langley Air Force Base, Texas, Companies and Corporations, Iraq, Disasters and Accidents
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Bush's best-laid plans
Viewed from a historian's perspective, the Bush administration since 9/11 has ransacked the past to conjure up comforting expectations for the future. President Bush excels in this exercise, expressing confidence that the "untamed fire of freedom" will...Tags: White House, Washington (U.S. state), September 11, 2001 Attacks, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Activism blossomed in college
Tribune staff reporterBarack Obama's interest in political activism took root at Occidental College, a small liberal arts institution in this city's hilly Eagle Rock section. He was barely 18 when he arrived in 1979, a kid from Hawaii who still called himself Barry. Obama...Tags: Education, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Columbia University, Colleges and Universities
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Khalilzads cautious optimism
A native of Afghanistan and veteran analyst and foreign service official, Zalmay Khalilzad is the United States ambassador to the United Nations, appointed to that position by President Bush. He was in Los Angeles last week to address the World Affairs...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Weaponry, Politics, Jimmy Carter, Iraq
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