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...pornography law. "This is just another way for certain groups to extort money," says Yahya. "It's not about morality." Others accuse legislators of trying to push through an Islamization program veiled as a campaign against nudity and lewd behavior. "The bill is the beginning of a Shari'a agenda to keep women inside," warns Harymurti, who is Muslim. Adds an even more alarmed Leo Batubara, a member of the Indonesian Press Council: "We could be going the way of the Taliban...
...Capitol Hill. Bush, who retired to his Texas ranch for the weekend after a summit in Cancún, did not want it to appear that inside-the-Beltway carping had sparked a staff shuffle. Now it can be attributed to Bolten, who will add some meat to an election-year agenda that has disappointed even some of the President's most fervent supporters. Speaking of Bush's team, a Bolten friend said, "Josh thinks they need to communicate better, and need something better to communicate...
...balance the egalitarian impulse of the spd, which could impose a heavier burden on employers and increase the cost of labor, against the free-market instincts of her own party, which may not find a way to raise enough cash. But the government also has on its agenda reforms of the tax system and the way in which laws are approved at the federal and state levels. And eventually it has to tackle labor-market restrictions that can make hiring in Germany prohibitively expensive, but which the spd and unions still support. "The coalition will be a success...
...Rice did her best to shrug off the catcalls, stressing her belief in the necessity of the Iraq war and even trying to spin the demonstrations as support for the Bush Administration's "freedom agenda." ?People have the right to protest,? she said at one point. "That's what democracy is all about. And I'm just delighted that in more and more of the world, those rights to speak your mind are being extended to other people for whom that right has not been there...
...Yanukovych's impressive showing may have been a surprise to Westerners who thought his time and eastward-looking agenda had come and gone, but it wasn't to him. Over the past year and a half, he has remade himself, hiring Western spin doctors rather than wasting funds on hapless Russian advisers. He became available to the media, and toned down his allegiance to Moscow, while still emphasizing the need to move to Europe "together with Russia." He also promised to ease the burden of high gas prices by re-entering the United Economic Space with Russia...