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...propel political systems in the direction of democracy. In a cyberspace equipped with intelligent tools, legislation can be effected by electronic referendums. The right to participate can be granted to every citizen. The principle of "no law without the right to vote on it" could be a practical concept within reach. ANDRZEJ KACZMARCZYK Warsaw...
...want to spark a heated debate at a dinner party, bring up the topic of genetically modified foods. For many people, the concept of genetically altered, high-tech crop production raises all kinds of environmental, health, safety and ethical questions. Particularly in countries with long agrarian traditions--and vocal green lobbies--the idea seems against nature...
...mullah, Khatami hardly rejects the notion of an Islamic republic. His most cherished aim is to serve the Islamic government by giving people the right to choose it--a concept that is dangerously revolutionary to hard-liners who believe in imposing it by diktat. Outside Iran, especially in Washington, diplomats speculate that Khatami may be unable to convince the hard-liners that reform is really necessary, and American officials grimly point to Khatami's meetings with supporters of terrorism as a sign that he may not be as moderate as some hope...
...nerve Eshkevari touches is velayat-e faqih, Khomeini's concept that gives the Muslim clergy, in particular its most revered scholar, absolute, God-given authority to govern Iran. Considering that legacy, political reformers avoid challenging it directly. But dissident clerics began questioning the dogma after Khomeini's death, an action that put some 500 mullahs in prison or under house arrest, including the most senior critic, Ayatullah Hossein Ali Montazari, once Khomeini's designated successor. Conservatives are worried that democracy will disembowel velayat-e faqih--and the clerical establishment along with it. "If this debate is not resolved," warns Eshkevari...
After his burly film of Henry V, his al fresco Much Ado About Nothing and his all-the-words Hamlet, Branagh devises a high-concept Love's Labour's Lost. Hey, kids, let's cut most of the text, put in 10 classic show tunes and set the story in a mythical European kingdom at the start of World War II. He has cast it with young actors, many of whom have done little Shakespeare and less musical theater. So the Clueless Alicia Silverstone is the princess; Scream's Matthew Lillard and Face/Off's Alessandro Nivola join Branagh...