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...running dog of the colonialists." But the soft-spoken, 69-year-old lawyer has a relaxed air about him that belies the political waves he has made in the past 23 years. Last month, Lee announced that he would not run for another seat in Hong Kong's Legislative Council after his current term ends in July. "I think we should allow younger people to take over," he says. "But I'm not going to retire from my fight for democracy...
...early as 2008. In 2004, Beijing postponed that date until at least 2012. Then last December, Beijing announced that Hong Kong voters will have to wait until 2017 and 2020 to elect their chief executive by popular vote and to vote for all 60 seats in the Legislative Council...
...children, Lee was born in Hong Kong but was raised in nearby Guangzhou, on the mainland. He earned his B.A. from the University of Hong Kong before studying law at Lincoln's Inn in London. After returning to Hong Kong to practice law, he was elected to the Legislative Council in 1985 and became a member of the Beijing-appointed committee to draft Hong Kong?s Basic Law. But when Beijing cracked down on protestors in Tiananmen Square in 1989, Lee's role in leading protests in Hong Kong led to his ouster from the Basic Law committee. Since then...
...Though he is stepping down from the Legislative Council, Lee plans to continue campaigning for democracy and working as a lawyer. Still, he says, "I will not be satisfied until we have in place a genuinely democratic system." He'll have to wait 12 more years to see if Beijing's promise...
Lack of professionalism is only one of the problems plaguing Iraq's floundering forces. More troublesome is their heavily sectarian composition. Throughout southern Iraq, members of the police and army are pulled largely from the Badr Brigade - a militia tied to a Shi'ite political party, the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, which is the chief rival of Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army. A number of MPs in Baghdad even suspect that Maliki's Basra assault was a poorly disguised government campaign to wipe out Sadr's base of popularity before local elections in October. That...