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...struck by violent street clashes between rival supporters of outgoing Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party and opposition leader Sheikh Hasina's Awami League. In January, a state of emergency was imposed, elections scheduled for that month were indefinitely postponed, and Ahmed was named Chief Adviser-in effect the Prime Minister-of a caretaker government made up largely of technocrats backed by the military. Since then, Ahmed has gone after allegedly corrupt former officials, beefed up the country's antigraft body, initiated measures to make the judiciary more independent, and agreed in principle to establish a human-rights...
...Europe Tightens Its Belt Re "Is the Good Life Out of Reach?" [Mar. 5], about the effect of a common currency on the cost of living in the European Union: Peter Gumbel made no mention of Britain, an E.U. country that has spurned the euro and kept its pound sterling. Wouldn't a comparison of economic conditions in Britain and those in other E.U. nations tell us something about whether the common currency is to blame for some of the ills mentioned? Alan Campbell, Cape Town, South Africa...
...Mugabe's regime within Africa, but his response suggests that he has yet to notice the new mood: his critics, he said, could "go hang." Now 83, Mugabe has become increasingly repressive since he won the election at independence in 1980. Although technically a multiparty democracy, Zimbabwe is in effect a one-party state. The opposition - political parties, trade unions, churches and civil society organizations, all of them harassed by arrests and detentions - has been fractured since its failure in flawed elections in 2005. Last September an antigovernment demonstration was called off because organizers feared not enough people would turn...
Their policy recommendations have already been put into effect in several hospitals across the country, including the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire...
...theory that the President needs candid and confidential advice from his staff. The Supreme Court acknowledged that need as early as 1803, in Marbury v. Madison. But the privilege also protects national security matters, especially when they involve military and foreign affairs, and has the very practical effect of allowing the Administration to keep things like the names of spies and informers and the progress of delicate negotiations secret...