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...press the government for the right to continue. Most of the volunteers were doing so for the first time, for example, and many said they were eager to do more community work in the future. Says Jiang: "It's a major leap forward in the formation of China's civil society, which is vital for China's future democratization process." That doesn't mean the Wenchuan earthquake will lead to elections in the next few years, but the complex and shifting relationship between the Communist Party and increasingly vociferous citizens could evolve into some form of compromise between absolute autocratic...
...Xiao Qiang, a Chinese media expert at the University of California, Berkeley. "It's going to progress just as much in the next three to five years, too. It's not going to be total media freedom but it is a big step in the empowerment of China's civil society...
...Lebanese are used to their leaders - sectarian warlords, corrupt tycoons and rebel clerics - creating more problems than solutions. So when almost all of the country's top men boarded planes on Friday for negotiations in Qatar to end the country's worst crisis since the end of the Lebanese civil war, there was joy in the land. "No one wants you; the population is living without you; your absence has made us comfortable," go the lyrics of The Leaders Left Lebanon, an instant hit song making the rounds on music television stations...
...multi-religious character and political system - which divides power among the country's largest sects - is famously fragile. The sectarian feeling unleashed by clashes between Hizballah, a Shi'a Muslim party, and government supporters, who are mostly Sunni and Druze Muslims, threatened to push the country into another civil...
...cabinet meeting produced a series of measures to confront the trash emergency, including assigning the army to guard landfills, granting extraordinary powers to Italy's Civil Protection chief to confront the problem, and turning over trash-related investigations to anti-mafia prosecutors...