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...mailing. "You only ride it to get to your destination." The Kemalists' blogs remind skeptics of the Islamic notion of takiye, according to which it is permissible for devout Muslims to dissimulate in order to achieve their goal. The fact that the party has not yet pursued an Islamist agenda on a national scale is, secularists argue, not proof that it never will. To bolster their argument, the secularists' newspapers zealously publish stories about municipal officials who have imposed Islam on public life by, for example, segregating the sexes at public pools...
...Minister last September, it seemed he could do no wrong. Although known as a staunch nationalist, his first act was to visit Beijing and Seoul, patching up strained relations with Japan's key trading partners. But foreign-policy coups were soon overshadowed by a perception that Abe's domestic agenda was lacking. While he spoke of boosting Japan's role abroad and revising the country's pacifist constitution, the public was focused on bread-and-butter economic issues. "When Abe talks about the constitution, people think, 'What about my salary?'" says the DPJ's Yamaguchi. Abe seems incapable of reading...
...Floridians has been accurate on most issues: his approval rating is flying around 70%, and he's won kudos for reinstilling a bipartisan spirit into the state's traditionally centrist politics. What's more, the summit adds to the state's feeling that it's become a national agenda-setter, especially after Crist and the legislature recently moved Florida's presidential primary to the front of the pack by scheduling it in January. Presidential candidates "are crawling all over the state now," Crist says. They're listening harder, he adds, to Florida-sensitive issues like a national catastrophe fund...
...Brinson's success made him a hero to social conservatives, but his approach also made him a renegade. More than a third of the young people he registered were Democrats, and that was fine with him. "We weren't tied to the Republican National Committee or have some agenda. We just wanted people to vote." Plus, he says, he was more interested in consensus than in controversy or finding the next wedge issue. "Some of them don't want a solution," he says of conservative activists, "'cause you won't have an issue to raise money over...
...When Bill Clinton came along, he defied the stubborn conventional wisdom that had formed about the two parties' relationship to religion. A Southern Baptist who could literally quote chapter and verse, Clinton freely talked to publications like Christianity Today, made religious freedom a key focus of his domestic agenda and insisted his staff work with conservative evangelical leaders in addition to progressive religious allies. But in many ways, Clinton's personal comfort with religion and ability to act as his own religious liaison masked the ongoing problems of his party. Democratic leaders were happy to let Clinton sermonize. They...