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...arrest. Several staffers were also detained. Ibrahim's experience hasn't eroded his faith in the long-term prospects for Arab democracy. "I see positive change reluctantly coming. It may not be as dramatic as taking down the Berlin Wall, but I'd rather have steady, methodical change - gradual democratization. Democratic forces exist, but every time they've had a chance to express themselves fully, they were silenced because of external issues." Foremost among these, says Ibrahim, is the Palestinian question. "At one point the slogan was: 'No voice should be louder than the battle for Palestine.' That permeated...
...thousands of Mexican protesters threatened to block border crossings, and a few burst into their country's Congress on horseback. U.S. poultry producers, concerned that Mexico will erect such nontariff barriers as additional health inspections on chicken, have worked with U.S. officials to offer a five-year extension and gradual phase-out of the tariff on chicken drumsticks and thighs, which dropped from 49% to nada this month. A U.S. industry spokesman says the two sides are making progress on this and other issues...
...political situation; they have already been through the revolutionary experience," says Hamid Reza Jalaipour, a reformist journalist who spent a month in prison in 2000 after attending a conference on Iran in Berlin. According to Jalaipour, the students and reformists in parliament share the idea that reform should be gradual. "The target of a revolution is usually the collapse of the political system," Jalaipour says. "In this case, we are looking for modification." Student leaders, anxious not to provoke a violent reaction from the Basij, tend to concur. One of them, who was arrested outside Modarres University three weeks...
...right now to teach the kids they have and rapidly taking in more. By 2010, the state must have no more than 18 kids in pre-kindergarten to 3rd grade classes, 22 in grades 4-8 and 25 in classes for grades 9-12. The state must also implement gradual reductions along the way. The idea is a noble one; after all there are Florida schools where 45 kids sit in one room, or five swollen classes meet in the gym. Like many noble ideas, it's also expensive. Florida already has a shortage of both teachers and classrooms. Mandatory...
...goes without saying, for instance, that the gradual disappearance of the spotted owl in Canada will probably not make headlines in Canadian newspapers, and certainly won’t be a priority for American media outlets. Nevertheless, the slow extinction of the spotted owl symbolizes the waning of serious efforts to preserve our environment...