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...Other environmental issues have failed to arouse the same clamor in this campaign. Both sides are promising to pursue water reform, with Latham announcing $A1 billion to revive the Murray river, and the Coalition touting a $A2 billion water fund to expand water recycling and efficient irrigation infrastructure. But to the concern of many scientists, crises like salinity and biodiversity loss have barely been mentioned. And despite Labor's promise to sign Australia up to the Kyoto protocol on greenhouse emissions and increase renewable energy use, climate change has also struggled to stir voters. "I think once they've done...
...brass of a big organization is charged with gross errors. The bosses circle the wagons until public clamor forces an inquiry by an elder statesman, who confirms the mistakes and many other management lapses but says they were the result of misjudgment rather than malign intent. Should the brass resign? In January, when the organization was the BBC and Lord Hutton concluded it had violated journalistic standards by accusing the government of sexing up the case for war in Iraq, Tony Blair was all for the departure of the BBC's chairman and Director General. Last week, though, he felt...
...second term last year, has repeatedly rejected such a discussion, because, says another Western diplomat, "it would just be a long-drawn-out exercise of Nigerians complaining about the obvious instead of getting on with fixing the country." But with the government struggling to bring economic growth, the clamor for change continues. On May 15, protesters marched in the southern city of Lagos. "The protest was to try and check the dictatorial tendencies of this regime," said Nigerian writer and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, who helped organize the march and was briefly detained by police who broke it up. "When...
...siege of Fallujah. Until recently, Baghdadis tended to view Fallujah, a town of 200,000 people some 30 miles west of the capital, as a big village notable for its conservative townsfolk and excellent grilled meats. Now, right or wrong, it has become a unifying symbol of Iraqis' clamor for self-determination. "Saddam killed the nationalist feelings inside us," says Basim Mohammed Ridha, 42, who sells fertilizer from a shop in downtown Baghdad. "The Americans have forced us to find it again...
...rivalry of Oxford and Cambridge in sport therefore is a thing apart, a matter between themselves, something to be settled by 'young 'varsity gentlemen' without the pother and popular clamor which are the inevitable concomitants of intercollegiate contests in the United States...