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...Your story encapsulated what the President is facing right now: dipping popularity, growing military and civil unrest, simmering corruption charges and worsening economic problems. Although she says "faith and trust in divine providence" are what keeps her going during difficult times, that's not enough to save the nation. She has to maintain the integrity of her office. President Arroyo and her family have to shape up or she may have to tread the same path as her disgraced predecessor. Jingo Badillo Manila...
...leaders of member countries would keep their hands off it and let the European Parliament, which is elected by the people and therefore has the mandate, make decisions regarding the E.U. The only way the E.U. will work is to get rid of the Brussels bureaucrats and have a civil service that is responsible only to the elected government of Europe. Gerhard Heinzelmann Gravesend, England...
...Pakistan's appalling image today is the direct consequence of the systematic repression of basic civil liberties by governments throughout our history. This was first done under the guise of national security. My parents' generation lost their right to vote and to criticize the government because their rulers claimed that dissent would leave the country vulnerable to India. Then repression was done in the name of Islam. My generation lost the right to romance without fear of harassment, and the ability to express ourselves in theater or dance, because our rulers claimed they were protecting us from hell itself...
...negative impression of the country. This will not be easy to dispel because it is partly based on reality. Changing the image will take time. But it can happen, because Pakistan is itself changing. With the relaxation of restrictions on economic activity, media and education, some of our civil liberties are being restored. We are already less repressed?and in less danger of radicalization?than we were only a few years...
...Anti-affirmative-action activist Ward Connerly is spearheading a 2006 ballot initiative in Michigan that would amend the state constitution to ban the use of all racial preferences in university admissions or state hiring. The Center for Equal Opportunity, a public-policy research group, has threatened to file federal civil rights complaints against some 100 colleges if they don't open any racially or ethnically exclusive programs, such as certain scholarships, to all applicants...