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...care. For Obama, wonky proposals obviously aren't the core of his appeal--although he has been more explicit than Clinton about raising taxes on the rich. Both voted against the Central American Free Trade Agreement in 2005, but neither is what you'd call an anti-free-trade activist. Clinton, it appears, would be likelier to enter the White House with big legislative proposals ready to roll. Obama might be better at forging the compromises needed to turn them into laws...
...With a comfortable lead in the delegate count, McCain is now less concerned with the other candidates than the talk-radio hosts, evangelical preachers, war bloggers, party activists and corporate financiers who are needed to fire up Republican voters. They're still divided and disgruntled. Limbaugh has warned that nominating McCain or Huckabee would destroy the party, and while Romney has emphasized his appeal to neocons, theocons and econocons - the Reaganite three-legged stool - YouTube has made him look like a flip-flopping pseudocon. The conservative direct-mail activist Richard Viguerie has called for a new candidate to unify...
...Clinton have acknowledged their failure to prevent or stop the Rwanda genocide. And while western pundits may dismiss the comparison, for Kenyans, the fear of a second Rwanda is very real. "I can see the beginnings of an ethnic conflict, I really can," says Mwalimu Mati, a local political activist. "Everyday, you've got more deaths, and these are in slums; they say Kibaki supporters were attacked or Odinga supporters were attacked, that's just code for Kikuyu and Luo [the respective tribes of the president and his rival...
...live in a broken state," says Mandira Sharma, a leading human-rights activist. For the past five years, she and her NGO, Advocacy Forum, have investigated hundreds of cases of disappearances that took place during the decade-long civil war. To Sharma, both the Maoists and the Nepal Army are guilty of a catalog of atrocities, from forced recruitment to extrajudicial killings. Attaining justice for the victims (and compensation for the nearly 200,000 displaced) ought to be as important to the country's push toward democracy as elections. "But human rights don't seem to be anyone's priorities...
...digital knight errant; his blog, Zhou Shuguang's Golden Age, publicized the plight of the victims of China's frantic economic boom. At the peak of its fame, the blog drew 20,000 readers a day. Zhou, who called himself Zola after the 19th century French writer and activist, had hoped to inspire some of the country's 47 million other bloggers to join him in the good fight, roaming the country and seeking out injustice, armed only with a thumb drive, a digital camera, a BlackBerry and a Gmail account. "All the lack of democracy in China...