Word: reforms
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Possible past links between government and 17 November are another problem. "We know," says Merry, "that there were people in the government, in the party, who had more than a damn good idea" of the terrorists' identities. Tying powerful figures to the group could be a political nightmare for reform-minded Prime Minister Costas Simitis, but he may have no choice. Greece's antiterrorist performance isn't just risking the Olympics--it is killing the nation's reputation...
...just any kidnapping," said state information minister B.K. Chandrashekhar. Some of Rajkumar's fans demanded that the government hunt down Veerappan and rescue their hero. Others prayed for a happy ending. Said S.R. Govindu, president of the actor's fan club: "As in his films, I hope Rajkumar can reform Veerappan and bring him back to Bangalore...
...women of any red-light district, and it was true," Charlie Chaplin noted in his autobiography. Cops looked the other way. "It kept the miners occupied," says Ellen Baumler of the Montana Historical Society. "The women paid money that went right into city coffers"--until 1982, when a new, reform-minded sheriff closed the Dumas, the last of its kind. The mines closed a year later, and Butte was changed forever...
...course, the Democrat who made that crack in the first paragraph will snort at the idea of George W. Bush--scion of old Wasps, Galahad of tort reform, living fat on Texas oil money and "presiding" over lethal injections--as a hero of the anti-elitist masses. But that will be the Democrat's mistake...
...perspective: "Look, people forget these things in a week," he said. He recalled violence outside the Democrats' 1968 convention in Chicago and said, "Compared to that, this is high tea at Buckingham Palace." Adds Choate: "All the publicity is bad because it suggests a certain chaos," he says. "The Reform party's public image was badly hurt this week, but fortunately in American politics most controversies have a half-life of two weeks...