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...accession, told Turkey loud and clear that it no longer wanted to hear excuses for inaction. The E.U. wants Turkey to stop prosecuting critical writers and journalists; do more to protect the rights of women and minorities; improve the functioning of the economy, for example by getting a grip on industrial subsidies; and much else...
...this has once again raised the possibility of regime change in the North - perhaps by the kind of implosion seen in Eastern Europe nearly 20 years ago. It's a beguiling prospect. But however much the world may want to see 23 million people released from the grip of a detestable regime, the possibility discomfits some South Koreans. Reeling from the global economic crisis, they aren't sure they can afford sudden reunification. And it absolutely petrifies China, which likes having a buffer state not allied with the U.S. between itself and the South. (See pictures of Kim's rise...
...familiar polarities of right and left are losing their salience. For a while, America will be in a state of ideological flux - which means we'll be unusually free to improvise a fresh course forward. We can have universal health coverage and public schools unbound from the stultifying grip of teachers' unions. We can tax fossil fuels so that solar and wind become more economical and commit seriously to nuclear power. We can impose sensible regulatory mechanisms and enthusiastically promote free markets and free trade. We can grow the armed forces to fight all necessary wars but also forgo pork...
Tyres Though the return of slicks should increase a car's grip by 20%, the weaker downforce will make high-speed cornering trickier...
...government's tightening grip has manifested itself in every area of Chinese life. One prominent activist was detained and many others interrogated by police after some 300 people signed the "Charter 08," a document published last year calling for more democracy and respect for human rights. China's best know activist lawyer, Gao Zhisheng, who has been in and out of detention for several years and whose latest five-year sentence for "subversion" had been suspended, disappeared once again in early February after what was apparently a first-hand account of his jailing and torture by security forces appeared...