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...national affirmative-action plan that favors Malays in everything from education to government contracts. Indians, who are Malaysia's poorest ethnicity, are so frustrated that they have marched by the thousands in Kuala Lumpur in recent months. "We respected [the National Front] for a long time, but they haven't helped us at all," says rubber tapper M. Krishnan, an ethnic Indian in Kepala Batas. "So now we need to change, to fight...
...reporting in the North - to no avail. Partly, I've always assumed, that's because I'm a U.S. citizen, and we have been technically at war with the North since a 1953 armistice. Partly it may be because some of the things I've written over the years haven't exactly been flattering to the family dynasty that runs the place: the late Kim Il Sung (the "Great Leader") and now his son, "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il. But mostly it's because the North Koreans, in their bull-necked isolation, pretty much don't give a damn what...
...Just because the candidates haven't been debating a larger strategy for handling weak states doesn't mean they're not thinking about it. Clinton has several experts on failed states advising her, including Richard Holbrooke, who negotiated the end of the Balkan wars, and Madeleine Albright, who made expanding democracy the theoretical aim of her tenure as Bill Clinton's Secretary of State. McCain's director of foreign and national security policy is Randy Scheunemann, from the conservative Project for a New American Century, who as a Senate adviser handled issues of military intervention in the Balkans and Somalia...
...Still, if the Democrats want this election to be about national renewal, about big ideas like energy independence and a rollback of militarism abroad, they are going to have to be truthful and precise. They haven't been on NAFTA, the relatively peripheral trade deal that both Clinton and Obama-formerly equivocal supporters-have made the symbol for the loss of manufacturing jobs. But shutting off free trade won't heal Ohio. Aggressive government action might. That is real change on the horizon, the real choice this year...
...says Maria Lozada, 56, from the stand where she sells newspapers in the rundown commercial center of Parque Central. Although she supports Chavez, she voted against his constitutional reforms and believes private enterprise is essential for Venezuela. "Because the other things he's done - like [nationalizing] the telecommunications company - haven't worked well...