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...those presidential candidates is Ramos-Horta, who says it's unfair to dismiss his country as a failed state so soon. "There is no civil war or bombs bursting on the streets," he says. "These are just growing pains of a young country." His main rival, Fernando de Araujo, leader of the democratic party and, like Gusmao , a resistance hero, disagrees. "We are a new country, but we are not a new society," he says. "Our people can see with their own eyes what has happened. It has been five years and what is there to show for it? Almost...
...before the Congressional hearings, Michael Battle, the Justice Department official who had made the telephone calls to dismiss six of the eight prosecutors, announced he was leaving his job. The Department described the sudden departure as long planned, having nothing to do with the controversial terminations he had been required to carry out. But Democrats immediately questioned that version of events. Said Linda Sanchez, a California Democrat: "The wheels are coming off the Bush Administration's increasingly hollow defense of its decision...
...resignation on Monday had already increased the questions surrounding the case. Michael Battle, the Justice Department official who made the telephone calls to dismiss six of the eight prosecutors in early December, said he was leaving his job. The Department of Justice issued a statement that described his sudden departure as long planned, having nothing to do with the controversial terminations he had to carry out. Battle, the DOJ said, had played no role in the White House-approved decision to get rid of the federal prosecutors, but had merely made the calls...
...spent most of his energy on-constitutional revision and international diplomacy-haven't captured the imagination of voters more concerned with their pocketbooks. "These are important political themes," says Minoru Morita, a liberal political analyst. "But they are not what the Japanese people are demanding." Abe's allies dismiss that line of criticism as overly simplistic, arguing that constitutional revision is a bold move that will enable Japan to take control of its destiny and reimagine itself as a nation. "Many systems in Japan haven't changed since the Meiji period, and they're not suited to today's situation...
...most disconcerting aspect of this turn of events was not that LaRouche—who is in his 80s and was more a staple of our parents’ generation—still actually has followers, but how nonchalantly Harvard students reacted to them. Most students dismiss the singing LaRouchians as simply another group of anti-war protesters...