Word: openly
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...earning a doctorate at Cambridge University. He is now a top strategist for the Participation Front, the moderate party led by, among others, the President's brother Reza. The name of the party is deliberate: what Iran's new revolutionaries want to bring to their country is legitimate--and open--democracy. "The people have very high expectations," says Mirdamadi. "They expect serious changes...
...restrictions, thus enabling the reform newspapers and magazines that were first muzzled in April to begin publishing again. This is more than just a battle for civil rights: reopening the dissident press will help keep the reform movement--and its leaders--alive. The Participation Front is also hoping to open Iran's opaque judicial system with a bill that will give conservative judges less leeway to lock up reformers on grounds that their democratic ideas contravene Islamic teachings...
...truly open the courthouse to people who can't afford a lawyer, proponents say, courts must simplify and standardize legal forms across jurisdictions, and more lawyers should "unbundle" their services--offering limited advice for lower fees...
Dingman says the current transfer procedure is a compromise between those people who believe eliminating transfers is "the best shot at building [House] community" and those who want to "swing the door open and allow anybody to go anywhere...
...China last week hosted Kim Jong Il on a rare trip abroad that underscored Beijing's critical role in cajoling the reclusive Pyongyang leadership to open up to the South and to the idea of economic reform. China, which remains North Korea's only significant ally, wants to show the South Koreans - from whom Beijing hopes to attract massive investment - that China, rather than the U.S., is the best guarantor of regional security. "China certainly has a lot to gain by taking the role of regional peace broker," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "And, of course, the fact that...