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...building an eyesore," says KMT spokesman Tsai Cheng-yuan. Some members say publicly that they should return all questionable assets to the government, rather than face the humiliation of being forced to divest. Coming clean would, says KMT parliamentarian Wu Den-yi, "relieve the party of a historical burden." Even if the cost is its showcase headquarters, the KMT may find it's time to leave its lucrative past behind...
...Blair or Charles Kennedy, the Liberal Democratic leader who hopes to replace the Tories as main opposition party at the next election. In his year running the Tories, Duncan Smith has fired his party chairman, lost his director of strategy and found no coherent line of attack. His latest burden is the revelation that Major, the last Tory Prime Minister, had a four-year affair in the 1980s with Edwina Currie, a boisterous former Health Minister - and tabloid reporters are on the hunt for other women who may have seen Major's blue underpants. This has revived memories...
...Britain's libel laws. "The main problem is that the defendant who is sued has to prove truth," says expert Geoffrey Robertson. This, he says, invites plaintiffs who are "prepared to lie and know that the media can't prove otherwise." In the absence of reforms that shift the burden of proof, says Robertson, piecemeal measures will have to suffice to protect freedom of expression: "One of the few things that can be done is to punish people who use libel laws as a form of gold digging. Those caught lying in the course of libel actions should be prosecuted...
...because the PT's candidate has made it clear that his priority will his social agenda, particularly alleviating the burden of an unemployment rate that hovers close to 20 percent. Spiraling unemployment has been the downside of the free-market policies implemented by President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, and has swung voters more solidly behind the PT. It's an issue that Lula, a self-taught blue collar worker and trade unionist before becoming the beacon of the Brazilian Left, understands better than any of the other candidates - and certainly better than most international investors. "If international economists were always right...
...added the academic benefits far outweigh the financial burden...