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...under pressure from his Western allies, Ben Ali set aside 20% of seats in parliament for opposition parties. The multiparty system is "the government's décor, to show the world it tolerates opposition parties," says Eric Goldstein, Middle East and North Africa research director for Human Rights Watch. "But it does its utmost to silence and marginalize them...
...demonstrations taking place in Bangladesh come after eight months of repressive emergency rule, which has restricted the rights to protest and fails to respect basic due process rights,” the watchdog organization Human Rights Watch said in a report...
Even with Harvard’s sudden preponderance of Red Sox fans, turnout in campus JCRs was surprisingly lackluster for this year’s baseball playoffs. But, really, who has time to watch a whole baseball game nowadays? Especially as national networks take over for playoff broadcasts, games are getting so long that they rarely end on the same day they began. Major League Baseball should be happy that its postseason can inspire solidarity among even casual observers (the cons of the “bandwagon” aside). But when fandom requires such a time commitment, it scares...
...proposal requires the approval of the Bundestag, or Parliament, and the conservative Christian Democratic Party (CDU), which governs in coalition with the SPD, are opposed. Angela Merkel, the otherwise environment-friendly German Chancellor and a member of the CDU, said that no such change would take place on her watch. She said that Germany would be better off improving traffic circulation in order to reduce the amount of time cars spent in traffic jams. Other parliamentarians said Germany should push technical fixes such as more fuel efficient cars...
...convention this weekend. Since Merkel edged into a power at the head of a "grand coalition" of the CDU and the SPD two years ago, the Social Democrats have been divided between centrist and left-leaning factions. The party has also been forced to watch as Merkel and the CDU co-opted some of the party's traditional turf on questions ranging from human rights to family benefits. The new platform demonstrably shifts the party to the left, a move that commentators say provides it with unity at least...