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...have a rigorous reform agenda in which we will introduce the structural change our country has lacked for so long. The renewal of Liberia means a new political order, a new social order, a new economic order. It involves far-reaching reforms - constitutional reform, land reform, judicial reform, civil-service reform, devolution of power. your rival for the presidency, former soccer star George Weah, alleges electoral fraud. The victory, which is not really mine but the people's, has been marred by these allegations, but I do not think they can be substantiated. How will you pacify his angry young...
...suggesting family-man stability? Check. Checkbook? Check. Crowe, who hurled a phone at a hotel clerk in June, was initially charged with a felony, which could have kept him from working in the U.S. But having paid the clerk, Nestor Estrada, a widely reported $100,000 to avoid a civil suit, Crowe pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge and got off with an even lighter fine: $160. Just enough for a pretty spiffy new cell phone...
...have appeared in “The Atlantic Monthly” and “Best American Short Stories 1994.” Her novel, “Inheritance,” is a prosaic multi-generational account of a family under the backdrop of China’s Civil War. Spanning decades of political history, “Inheritance” also presents the far more personal story of two sisters. These two sisters, Junan and Yinan, grow up together during China’s Cultural Revolution. The elder, Junan, is more practical and less emotional than the younger...
...with no interference, ever, from the U.S. government, developing countries insisted that the Internet should be managed by a multinational body such as the UN. The issue was resolved on the first day of the summit by creating an Internet Governance Forum (IGF) made up of governments and civil society groups. Crucially, though, the new body will not have decision-making powers. Score one for Washington...
...minute news conference, despite having a tight format of opening statements and then two questions from each country's press corps, was filled with surreal moments. Roh went off on a tangent in which he propounded an unconventional reading of American Civil War history in explaining his own country's ginger approach to North Korean human rights issues. "I do understand that President Lincoln was quite slow in liberating the slaves in the United States," Roh said. "This was because the President, if he took the lead in this issue, he thought that America would be divided in opinion...