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These days, rather than be a politician himself, Dani wants to be a political watchdog. He founded an NGO two years ago called INPO, initiative for progress, which has a dozen young staff members who report to him. The organization, which takes pains to stay independent from any political party or business interest, aims to hold politicians' feet to the fire and convince citizens to do the same: protesting against missing traffic lights at a busy intersection, investigating candidates for conflicts of interest, running a get-out-the-vote drive. "It's not only about the idea of democracy...
...those academic superstars who are too busy to be reading this column. What are all these vital communications? Most of the nine hundred messages in my inbox are not addressed to me specifically. Their subject lines begin with brackets, indicating that they come from one of the dozen or so organizations to which I, as a Harvard student, am duty-bound to devote my spare time. Some of them are from my classes. Still others are from Facebook. At most one—Widener Library, informing me that my copy of “There?...
Pundits have spent much of the past year debating what the trend to Labor said about Australia. In a country where voting is compulsory, elections turn on a dozen or so marginal seats, where small shifts in voter sentiment can make or break governments. There was reason to think swinging voters would applaud Howard: Australia is in its 16th successive year of economic growth, and unemployment and interest rates are the lowest since the '70s. "This is the first defeat of a government in decades where there was no evident anger or public rage," said former Liberal Senator Michael Baume...
...some nights only half-a-dozen or so bombs can be heard hitting southern Baghdad and other quarters of the city. On other nights neighborhoods within earshot of the Green Zone take brutal hammerings, a dozen strikes or more crashing in the darkness. For weeks it has gone like this - relative calm in the city during the day followed on many evenings by a chorus of explosions around the city. In the past several days, however, dawn has brought blasts of its own, a seeming answer by insurgents and militia fighters to assertions by U.S. and Iraqi officials that Baghdad...
...ordinary citizens, scores of journalists and foreign diplomats - attended the opening hearing at the tribunal?s headquarters on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. The sense of history was palpable. "I came here because I wanted to know what Duch would say," said Chum Mey, 77, one of only a dozen or so former inmates to emerge alive from Duch?s notorious S-21 prison and torture center. ?If he would admit that he killed people...