But while Mr. Zardari may have reclaimed some political space, rallying the grass roots of his party, and seizing headlines that even one month ago had belonged to voices hostile to him, many analysts see his belated outreach as a last-ditch attempt to fend off his enemies and salvage his presidency.
Aimed at seizing headlines rather than territory, suicide squads select a high-profile target, use a car or truck bomb to breach a guarded compound and cause maximum casualties and then send fighters in to prolong the assault with a drawn-out fight to the death.
While events like Munich seized headlines, a growing number of moderates within the P.L.O.
When Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Chicago-based Nation of Islam, staunchly defended Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi recently, he seized headlines for an organization that has made little news in recent years.
Denied the traditional honeymoon, he allowed himself to be ambushed by the gays-in-the-military fiasco, which seized headlines for months, weakened him politically, and left its intended beneficiaries worse off than before.
It is no coincidence that such populist tub-thumping parties — often anti-immigrant and conservative, but by no means limited to the far right — have seized headlines as Europe's economic crisis has bitten deeply not only into pocketbooks but also into the reputation of the political elite.
CLAYGATE, England — In a further twist to a story of murder and mystery that has seized headlines for days in France and Britain, the British police summoned an army bomb squad on Monday to search a work shed at the home of a British-Iraqi family targeted in last week's killing in the French Alps.
Last June, a Brookings paper, How Millennials Could Upend Wall Street and Corporate America, seized headlines when it reported that a significant majority of US millennials – people born between 1983 and the early 2000s – placed moral values above monetary ones when it came to their economic decisions.
She annoyed the Socialist Party's old guard when she skipped the memorial for the 10th anniversary of the death of President François Mitterrand in January, jetting off to Chile instead, where she seized headlines by campaigning with the Socialist presidential candidate, Michelle Bachelet, who won.
Since the sudden appearance of the extremist Sunni Islamic State (IS), the group has seized headlines with a shocking level of blood-letting and cruelty - but can its savagery be explained, asks Fawaz A Gerges.
5f4e5f45-8e27-4911-9cc5-f031a6f79209 Even before recent political revolts in the Middle East seized headlines, painters, printmakers, muralists and other artists were busy capturing the volatile mood of the region.
