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...coalition member D66, a small left-of-center party, demanded that she be forced to leave the government. When Balkenende refused to give up Verdonk, who is popular among the right wing of the electorate, D66 pulled out of the government, leaving it without a parliamentary majority. Attending a forum at the Aspen Institute in Colorado, Hirsi Ali says, "The more this goes on, the more I think, 'Let's just all get on with life.'" She's getting on with hers - she has resigned from parliament and will leave the Netherlands shortly for a fellowship at Washington's American...
...adherence to fair elections, representative government and press freedom. State-controlled companies already run 40% of the economy, and the share is rising - part of a wider pattern of centralizing power in the hands of the President and his closest associates. One result is that the World Economic Forum ranks Russia poorly on corruption: 106th out of 117 countries, for example, in "favoritism in decisions of government officials," and 108th in protection of property rights...
...donate eggs for stem cell studies, adopted the same restriction; they will not pay women for donating, but will compensate them for travel and other expenses related to their participation.) The task force released a draft of its proposed guidelines to its 2300 membership in a town hall forum at the Society's annual meeting in Toronto Friday afternoon. Members will have 60 days to comment on the draft, and the committee will reconvene to amend the guidelines in the fall...
...Finishing it up will not come easy. The government postponed plans for a new headquarters at Tamar during the SARS outbreak, and when it reintroduced them last fall, it met strong opposition. But Tsang has pushed the plan aggressively. In March, he met with representatives of the Harbour Business Forum, a coalition of prominent corporate leaders who had issued a detailed report outlining problems with current government plans for the Central waterfront, and "gave them a bit of a dressing down," according to a person familiar with the meeting. Since then the group has been more muted on the harbor...
...book everyone was talking about last week at the first World Economic Forum (WEF) ever held in Tokyo was not Thomas Friedman's The World Is Flat, or some other tome on globalization. It was a slim Japanese volume called The Dignity of a State. Written by mathematician Masahiko Fujiwara, the book is ostensibly a nostalgic call to return to ancient Japanese virtues. But it's also a shrill rant that blames free markets for a wide assortment of Japan's?and the world's?woes. "Globalism," Fujiwara writes, "is merely a strategy of the U.S. that seeks world domination...