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...decision was engineered by European and developing countries who worry that Wolfowitz has become obsessed with corruption to the exclusion of other issues. They were angry last year when Wolfowitz suspended $1 billion worth of projects in Bangladesh, Chad, Congo, Ethiopia, India and Kenya because of corruption. The funding resumed after countries agreed to implement anti-graft safeguards - measures that Wolfowitz's critics called window dressing...
...from places like these, we need to cry out for a movement like the European Enlightenment to sweep away Muslim extremism. Judeo-Christianity had to go through processes like the Enlightenment and the Reformation before it could reach a point where the Catholic Pope quotes Nietzsche, publicly opposes holy wars, and encourages scholarly dissent while seeking to repair antique schisms...
...Last night, crowds overwhelmed riot police, torched cars, and occupied the headquarters of Hungarian state TV. An estimated 100 were injured. While such popular protests are common in some European countries, such as France, they remain the exception in the post-communist East, which makes the current outburst all the more surprising...
...essentially the same thing: that the government had been lying to Hungarians about the state of the economy and their own activities for the past two years. "We lied in the morning, we lied in the evening," Gyurcsany said. "We screwed up. Not a little, a lot. No European country has done something as boneheaded as we have... Evidently, we lied throughout the last year and a half, two years...
...However inadvertently, Gyurcsany was "invoking a revolutionary spirit," said Laszlo Csaba, a professor of economics and European studies at Budapest's Central European University. "I think it shows that the situation here is serious, and that the Prime Minister has not taken into consideration the... popular revulsion that his words have created...