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...company spokesman insists was a rare breakdown of a solid reporting system. But Shays isn't sold on that. He is trying to determine whether cruise lines are keeping some crimes off the books. "There's a huge incentive to downplay any incident, to sail on," says the centrist Republican. "Is going on a cruise the perfect way to commit the perfect crime...
ANDREI SIMANTJUNTAK Member of Indonesia's centrist Islamic Prosperous Justice Party...
Privately, Olmert, 60, has acted with dispatch to unite Kadima, the centrist party that Sharon created last year. Shimon Peres, the former Labor Prime Minister whose jump to Kadima had given it credibility, made some tiny noises about taking over but soon accepted the reality of his advanced age (he is 82) and anachronistic left-wing politics and fell into line behind Olmert. The other Kadima heavyweights followed. Minister of Justice Tzipi Livni, 47, a rising star with the highest poll ratings of any politician in Israel, immediately announced her support for Olmert, even though the two had been rivals...
...right ideologue out to shred Canada's social fabric. Harper never effectively fought back. But he has since repositioned himself. While he originally supported the Iraq war and promotes such traditional Tory issues as tax cuts and a tougher stance on crime, he is also pushing such centrist initiatives as tax credits for people who buy mass-transit passes. Harper has vowed to revisit the issue of same-sex marriage, which is now legal in Canada, by putting it to a vote in Parliament, but he has promised not to touch abortion rights. And he has worked hard to recast...
...worse losses,” said Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Avi Matalon, who is from Israel. “The momentum is with the moderate center.” Sharon, formerly a member of the right-wing Likud party in Israel, recently formed a new centrist party called Kadima that was expected to achieve a large victory in Israel’s March 28 elections. Some, including Israeli citizen Yakir A. Reshef ’09, said they were concerned that Kadima would be hurt, in the election, by Sharon’s stroke...