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...Democrats in Name Only In "Living in Bill's Shadow" [Jan. 26], you discussed Bill Clinton's lingering influence over the Democratic presidential candidates' strategies for beating Bush. But genuinely Democratic politicians have been missing in action since the 1960s. The Democrats are vying for the hearts and minds of the party faithful, but they abandoned their core values and hung their supporters out to dry long ago. They made their pact with the devil to stay in office no matter what the cost. Principles were the first casualty. Democrats should stop their charade and join the Republicans. After...
...Democracy, the Iranian Way Your Notebook item reported on reformist candidates being banned from Iran's parliamentary elections [Jan. 26]. The U.S. and its allies need to be careful about criticizing Iran's internal political affairs. They must acknowledge that Western forms of democracy don't fit every society. Iran is a deeply Muslim nation, an established Islamic republic, with our own interpretation of democracy based on the holy Koran and on the fatwas of our leaders. So, please, let us be ourselves. Reza Bozorg Isfahan, Iran...
...called a racist. But when Don Brash became leader of the conservative National Party in October, he thought the country "desperately needed to have an adult discussion" about race. So the former Reserve Bank governor, whose wife is a Chinese New Zealander, gave it one. In a speech on Jan. 27, he said the government's obsession with the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi and the "grievance industry" of treaty claims risked creating "a racially divided nation, with two sets of laws and two standards of citizenship." A National government, he declared, would insist on "one rule for all." It would...
...other, scored with the Catamounts a man down off a put-in by star forward Brady Leisenring off a rebound at 16:30 in the first, gave Vermont its first lead of the game, 2-1. It was the first shorthanded goal the Crimson had given up since a Jan. 4, 2002 win over Union...
...they don't want to work, there is no work for them," says Kristína Magdolenová, executive director of the Roma Press Agency. Coming just months before E.U. accession, the dispute is an embarrassment, since Slovakia 's membership was once conditional on improving the Roma's lot - Jan Stojaspal Delayed Vengeance SWITZERLAND Police arrested a Russian man for the stabbing murder of an air-traffic controller who was on duty when the man's wife and two children died in a midair...