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Cadres of poll watchers, and people watching the poll watchers, are in place. They're hoping to avoid a repeat of the 2004 election, where waits of two hours occurred when poll watchers and election challengers wrongly disrupted the flow of voters. Five different groups are sending observers into 17...
But rather than a grand theologian's invitation to tea, Muslims around the world took the Pope's discourse - a probing and sometimes blunt analysis of reason's role in religion that included a denigrating historical reference to Mohammed - as a monumental slap in the face. The Pope's defenders...
The answer is that outrage has given way to smugness, the kind of self-satisfaction conservatives displayed after electoral successes in 1980 and 1994. Groups like the Cabinet and the Democracy Alliance suggest a new kind of moneyed progressivism, one that shows little of the class discontent that animated earlier...
The jump in business failures is one reason why Tokyo yesterday announced a $51 billion economic stimulus package aimed at restoring financial stability to the country. Among other measures, the government will inject more money than originally planned into financial institutions, offer tax breaks on housing loans, and guarantee loans...
But not everyone is optimistic about Mexico's future following the reform. Political analyst Federico Estevez said that it could be too little, too late and lead to major losses in oil revenue before more radical legislation is implemented. Furthermore, he said that far from becoming isolated, Lopez Obrador and...