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The idea for the meeting originated with Iranian moderates who were friends of Abdi's. They approached a Cyprus-based human-rights group called the Center for World Dialogue, which organized the conference and invited Rosen. Although the two men are still poles apart in their thinking, they welcomed the...
WASHINGTON: From curing gays to partial-birth abortions the GOP's fiery right-wingers have little problem making themselves heard in an election season. But a new poll, commissioned the Republican Leadership Council, indicates that the GOP's sensible silent -- the fiscally conservative but socially hands-off moderates -- had better...
But TIME congressional correspondent James Carney says that the conventional wisdom about midterm elections -- that they are won by the turnout of party loyalists, i.e., the religious right -- will keep the GOP moderates relegated to their customary place in the wings (just ask private citizen William Weld). "Winning over moderate...
TEHRAN: Iran's moderates and conservatives may be at each other's throats, but neither side is ready to fight it out in the street. A day after violently suppressing a demonstration by 4,000 students, the country's conservative leadership sought to defuse a mounting crisis by releasing Tehran...
But even Khatami wanted the situation cooled down, notes MacLeod. "The moderates know they'd lose any direct confrontation with the conservatives, who control the police and military. Yesterday's pro-Karbaschi demonstration went ahead even though Khatami urged its cancellation. He wants to move slowly, building public support to...