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...Minority Report The man who must minister to Malaysia's malaise is Abdullah. When he was handpicked for power four years ago by longtime Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, Abdullah was dismissed as a political lightweight. But Abdullah surprised even his harshest critics. He vowed to combat corruption, liberalize the press and restore the reputation of a judiciary whose independence had been repeatedly questioned during the latter part of Mahathir's 22-year rule. To underscore Malaysia's commitment to economic efficiency, Abdullah initially scaled back several of Mahathir's prestige megaprojects, including a money-losing national auto company...
...passion they've generated. Roché says levels of frustration felt in banlieues usually produce an equally powerful reaction to provocation - in this case the death of innocents that mobilized scores of enraged youths into street assemblies. Added to that Roché adds, is an intensity of combat with police that is also frequently a factor in violence spreading from one area to others with no connection to initial events...
...took the Howard position: no ratification of Kyoto II unless it requires China and India to limit their carbon emissions. On Iraq, Rudd has moderated Labor's earlier "immediate pull-out" policy. He says he will begin negotiations with the U.S. and Iraq on a staged withdrawal of 500 combat troops - one-third of the total deployment there - to take place over the next seven months...
...supplemental funding bills. This year, President Bush is seeking $196 billion more for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Congress wants to approve a $50 billion slice of that to fund the wars through the winter, but with conditions attached - most importantly, calling for an end to U.S. combat operations in Iraq by 2009. Senate Republicans blocked the bill with a filibuster on November 16. House Democrats argue that a phone call from Bush to Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell to pass the legislation would end the impasse - if Bush would accept the accompanying deadline on U.S. combat operations...
Gates scolded the Army last month for promotion policies that too often are "unchanged since the cold war" and combat-training that "left the service unprepared" for Iraq. Rebuilding the service requires "visionary leadership across the service," he said, "and up and down the chain of command." Or maybe it just requires the ability to peer into the past: Petraeus is simply helping a new generation of soldiers learn the lessons in unconventional warfare the Army abandoned following its inglorious exit from Vietnam...