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...latest initiative to preserve the rain forest aims to create pressure for action ahead of July's G-8 summit in Italy and December's U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, much as antipoverty campaigners like Bono harnessed the power of public opinion to push an Africa agenda at the 2005 G-8 summit. Blue State Digital, the Internet consultancy behind the hugely successful Web component of Obama's election campaign, is providing know-how and software to maximize the impact of the rain-forest campaign and mobilize supporters. The key, says Thomas Gensemer, managing partner of Blue State Digital...
Another reason analysts are optimistic is that the Maoists still have enough popular support. Nayak points out that in parliamentary by-elections for six seats last month, the Maoists won three. Also, they wouldn't want to turn international opinion against them again. "The last few months of Maoists' rule has shown a certain lack of statecraft," says Dixit, "They sought to weaken all institutions of state. Now they're faced with losing face while in government. Prachanda's decision is definitely good for his personal image, though his followers may be nonplussed...
...appeared in a glossy, eight-page magazine spread in Paris-Match, a leading French newsweekly, flaunting the weapons, uniforms and personal effects of the dead soldiers. Back in France, support for the war dropped to a new low. Defense Minister Herve Morin noted that the Taliban "understood that public opinion is probably the Achilles' heel" of the international community...
...coerced confession was a "harmless error" that shouldn't automatically result in the overturning of a guilty verdict on appeal. But the next year he outraged anti-abortion forces in a pivotal case, Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Souter joined with Kennedy and O'Connor in a joint opinion that upheld the "essential holding" of Roe v. Wade. Though in the same decision the three justices approved most provisions of the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act, a law that put limits on abortion rights, they had ensured the survival for years to come of the basic right to choose...
...older member states already wary about migrant labor, the recession has aggravated concerns over low-cost competition for jobs at a time when work is scarce. It shows in public opinion: a Eurobarometer survey last December found that 59% of people in the 12 newer members thought the E.U. was strengthened by enlargement, compared to just 44% in the 15 older members...