Word: reforms
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...this one. Only 30 years after the voting age was lowered to 18, are we voluntarily relinquishing our political voice? The issues being focused upon reflect our apathy. Candidates expect our vote to be trivial, and are focusing on issues directed at an older demographic. Issues of campaign finance reform and health care seem far removed from our everyday lives. In essence, our inaction has created a vicious cycle which threatens to drive our voice out of the political process: Youth seem disinterested in politics, so candidates focus on issues unimportant to us, resulting in further apathy...
Though most Democratic observers concede that his candidate is in its twilight, Bradley has made a conscientious effort to keep focused on a core group of issues, including health care, campaign finance reform, race relations, and education...
Ganji's writings have his friends worried for his life. He receives regular threats. "I guess I'm a troublemaker," Ganji laughs in a TIME interview. Suddenly turning somber, he adds, "I call it playing with death. One day something might happen to me. This fight for reform is lawful, but it has its price." In addition to the outpouring of public support, Ganji is encouraged by the steady flow of leaks he receives about death squads: he declines to identify his sources but likens them to the insiders who fed Woodward and Bernstein...
...their part, Fallahian and Rafsanjani have denounced Ganji's writings as lies. Even some of Iran's liberals, fearing a hard-line backlash against the reform camp, believe he goes too far. "We need to make sure that our approach is measured," says Morteza Mardihah, a columnist for the Tehran daily Asr-e-Azadegan. "With Ganji, it is like passing a car accident. Sometimes reality is too harsh--and unnecessary to look...
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