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...these campaigns in the first place—must signal their unwillingness to participate in a bidding war. While it may take a courageous candidate to reform our broken system, he or she must have the support of the electorate to have any chance of success. If the average citizen stops donating and instead works for campaigns, or writes letters, or waves flags, then, and only then, will this truly be a campaign of ideas and not of money...
...keep telling us we're French, but continue shutting us out as eternal foreigners." Smahi, a leftist until he joined Le Pen's party a decade ago, agrees: "The National Front" he says, "was the first place where, once I accepted my identity and responsibilities as a French citizen, I wasn't expected to do something with a broom in my hand, or a ball between my feet." It would be ironic - and a bitter indictment of France's mainstream political parties - if it took Jean-Marie Le Pen to get such a message across to voters who are yearning...
...Premature Politicking Re "The race is on" [Feb. 5], about the early start to the U.S. presidential campaign: I am a U.S. citizen, and I propose that there be no campaigning until May 2008. The parties should hold their primary elections in June and their conventions in August and September, leaving September and October to finish campaigning and debating. Ah, yes, and let's cap campaign spending. Stephen C. Schulte Hermée, Belgium...
...second suit, though, a trial judge reached the opposite conclusion. He ruled that U.S. soldiers were working for the multinational force when they captured American citizen and alleged kidnapper Mohammad Munaf in Iraq, so U.S. courts couldn't hear Munaf's habeas petition...
Germany German prosecutors on Jan. 31 issued arrest warrants for 13 CIA agents alleged to have abducted Khaled al-Masri, a German citizen of Lebanese descent, while he was on vacation in Macedonia in 2003. Al-Masri was flown to Afghanistan, where he was allegedly held for five months in a secret prison and then released in a remote part of Albania...