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...broaden its appeal, the B.J.P. in recent months has de-emphasized religion. Instead, it has promoted the party as the disciplined, ultra- nationalist remedy for the mounting ailments afflicting India, in particular the secessionist movements in Punjab, Kashmir and Assam and mounting sectarian and political violence. Since Rajiv Gandhi's assassination last month, the B.J.P. has appropriated the Congress slogan of "Stability" and argued that Gandhi's party, without a Nehru scion at the top, has become too shaky to lead India. Said Advani last week: "The B.J.P. appears to the common voter as the only oasis of stability...
Eager to show Washington that he is willing to embrace at least some democratic principles, Fahd announced plans in April to appoint a Consultative Council to advise the policymaking Council of Ministers. By Western democratic standards, the proposal is modest. But in the autocratic gulf region, any step to broaden participation in government is radical. Fahd first proposed a Consultative Council more than a decade ago, but shelved the initiative when the Iranian revolution aroused fears of regional instability...
...free enterprise who leads Ralph into a dubious fried-chicken business, seduces Helen and causes Theresa, the family loyalist, to leave home. The happy ending for the Changs comes not in abandoning the American Dream but in finding a way to make it their own. "I wanted to broaden the immigrant experience," says Jen. "The idea is to give America back to Americans again in a fresh...
...year Congress passed a child-care bill that combined the best principles of both conservatives and liberals. By tying child-care benefits to the earned-income tax credit, conservatives won incentives for those who would work their way out of poverty. At the same time, liberals were able to broaden government support for working mothers. There are other signs that America is ready for bipartisanship: no line in George Bush's Inaugural speech received more applause than his admonishment to Congress, "They didn't send us here to bicker...
Universities should adhere to the same standards of speech as the rest of society--those defined by the First Amendment. Unfortunately, hate speech policies like the one at Brown broaden the constitutional definition of "fighting words" and narrow the definition of protected "speech...