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...country, attract international confidence, support gender equality and spur economic growth. The wily Rafsanjani, 70, is seen as a consensus builder, giving him an advantage over other top candidates such as former police chief Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf, from the neo-conservative camp, and former Minister of Science and reformist candidate Mostafa Moin. "He's the only candidate capable of preventing extreme factionalism in Iran," says Nasser Hadian, a political science professor at Tehran University. "But he's also the only one who can broach relations with America," because only he has enough political power internally. In his two consecutive terms...
...head the office, he would become a Cardinal the next time a new batch were promoted to the title. The Congregation oversees all issues related to theology and the maintenance of Church orthodoxy. In his nearly quarter-century in the post, Cardinal Ratzinger became a lightening rod for reformist critics of John Paul II's papacy...
...online activists were detained last year for several weeks and beaten for antigovernment criticism. In response, dozens of blogs have sprung up offering instructions on how to remain anonymous and circumvent government filters. With the June presidential elections approaching, some bloggers are campaigning for a boycott, while others support reformist candidates and argue for participation. "Weblogs are one weapon," says a blogger known as Saena, "that even the Islamic Republic cannot beat." --By Nahid Siamdoust
...Well-placed sources tell TIME's Vatican expert consultant Giancarlo Zizola that the reformist wing of the College of Cardinals came into the pre-conclave period weak and particularly unprepared. And since the surprise momentum of the candidacy of Ratzinger - considered the symbol of the doctrinaire tendencies of the last pontificate - former Milan Archbishop Carlo Maria Martini, 78, has led an effort to scramble for a compromise candidate to oppose the German. Ratzinger as Pope, one source told Zizola, would amount to a "symbolic and institutional registering of the defeat? of the reforms of the 1960s Second Vatican Council. Tettamanzi...
...enabling the Iraqi people to defy the insurgency and prove the plausibility of democracy. Even more importantly, Bush shifted away from the U.S.’s previous policy of “pragmatic tolerance” of brutal autocratic regimes, which calcified established political regimes and stillborn reformist efforts. As a foreign policy, cynicism masquerading under the self-congratulatory name of “realism” doesn’t have the potential of Bush’s Wilson-esqe vision of freedom and democracy...