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About 40% of the country's unemployed, or 6.1 million people, have been out of work for at least six months, and the number of people working part-time because they can't find full-time employment stands at 8.8 million...
...number of freshmen decided to abide by the rules established by the Freshman Dean’s Office...
...Hong Kong, thousands of people took to the streets. They marched on the offices of the central government, carrying placards with Liu's face and shouting slogans calling for democracy in their city of 7 million. During the weeks that followed, a number of Hong Kong politicians called for his release...
...This isn't the first roadblock on Hong Kong's long march toward democracy. The British routinely co-opted or marginalized opponents to colonial rule until the 1980s, when they finally allowed a certain number of local district councilors to be elected. In the early 1990s, the first legislative elections were held, but after the handover, the Chinese temporarily replaced the whole legislature. Since then, it has postponed democracy twice. In 2004, Beijing decreed that Hong Kong could not have universal suffrage before 2012. In 2007, after the pan-democrats defeated a package of reforms almost identical to the ones...
...design of the country's democratic system may hamper efforts to build a strong government. Iraq's democracy is a parliamentary system based on the principle of proportional representation - voters all over the country simply choose a party or bloc, whose list of candidates is then allocated the number of seats in parliament proportional to its share of the total vote. The Prime Minister is chosen by a parliamentary majority. While the system may be designed to promote consensus, in the absence of consensus it can be a recipe for weak and unstable government. (Ironically, Israeli leaders can sympathize: their...