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...awarded Sweden’s illustrious Olaf Palme human rights award in March, was jailed last month along with three others for the crime of threatening national security. While the women’s movement had a slight victory in recent weeks, with the Iranian Parliament deleting Ahmadinejad’s abhorrent clauses to the bill, it is likely not the end of Ahmadinejad’s attempts to “re-Islamize” Iranian women...
...Stephen Pound, the Labour MP from Ealing North, will advocate caliginosity (dimness, darkness) on the floor of Parliament. "I shall be drawing the Prime Minister's attention in a fairly obscure and abstruse way to the word: 'Amid the global fiscal turmoil, we sought illumination but found only caliginosity.' " The exercise has already influenced Pound's speech: in the course of a 12-min. interview, he used the word 15 times...
...Helsinki After Killings, a Crackdown In the wake of a second school shooting in 10 months--which claimed 11 lives at a trade school 180 miles (290 km) northwest of the capital--the government announced it will move to tighten Finland's lax gun laws by submitting amendments to Parliament that would restrict licensing and deepen background checks. The nation's strong hunting tradition has spurred one of the world's highest rates of gun ownership...
...Jeyaretnam, often called J.B.J., gave up life as a high-flying lawyer to become Singapore's most tenacious government critic and, in 1981, the first opposition leader elected to Parliament. The bewhiskered Jeyaretnam served in Parliament from 1981 to '86 and from 1997 to 2001. A fierce advocate for Singapore's disadvantaged, he faced sporadic bankruptcy as a result of defamation suits filed by several Singaporean politicians. Earlier this year, in a return to politics, he helped found the Reform Party and planned to run in the 2011 elections...
...since a truck packed with 600 kg of high-grade explosives rammed into the Marriott hotel on Sept. 20, city officials have scrambled to reverse the plan, hoisting in concrete barriers to slow traffic, setting up police checkpoints, and seriously beefing up the "red-zone" security area around parliament, the prime minister's house, other government buildings and big hotels...