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...Whether Lee wins that and other struggles may depend largely on national assembly elections in April. Currently, the country's parliament is dominated by liberal opposition politicians who can block Lee's reform efforts. But many observers think Lee's conservative Grand National Party stands a good chance of picking up enough seats to control the assembly, citing as evidence the outcome of December's elections in which many liberal candidates were defeated. Says Cheong Inkyo, an economics professor at INHA University in Incheon: "The people have already indicated they want a change." South Korea's first CEO President says...
...Sadr movement has, of course, long been involved in social and political activism in addition to militia violence. Its activists can be found doing everything from from holding seats in parliament to offering cut-rate propane in poor Shi'ite neighborhoods. That the Sadrists might choose to emphasize some of these activities over armed confrontation is quite plausible, but Moqtada al-Sadr is notoriously unpredictable, and the thinking behind his moves is often unclear. Sadr could just as easily be simply biding his time until surge troops leave in July...
...Pakistan's black-suited lawyers took to the streets last year to protest Musharraf's dismissal of the Supreme Court - which was poised to invalidate his October re-election by a then pliant parliament - the call for Shari'a grew louder. Pakistan's justice system - slow, corrupt and usually anything but just - had earlier commenced a quiet renaissance. But a new court was installed, stacked with judges who signed an oath of loyalty to Musharraf. The court has little credibility with the Pakistani public, who see the whole episode as yet another confirmation of a corrupt justice system, where those...
...President has dismissed such calls, but if Zardari and Sharif join forces with some smaller parties, Musharraf may not have a choice, short of a dramatic move, like dissolving parliament. "I am perceiving a rat-and-cat game," says Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, Musharraf's former Information Minister, who lost his seat after 30 years in government. "Musharraf wants to stay in government, whereas the parties are not ready to accept him." This clash of political wills promises a brutal test for Pakistan. If it can be resolved, Pakistan's transition to real democracy may have begun...
...procession had started at the Parliament, wending its way through damp Belgrade streets to the monumental St. Sava Church, the largest Serbian Orthodox church in the Balkans. There, high priests delivered "prayers for Kosovo." The former Russian dissident and Nobel Laureate Aleksander Solzhenitsyn sent greetings from his home in the U.S. state of Vermont, calling on Serbs to "stand by your graves." (Kosovo is the site of a famous defeat at the hands of the Ottomans that is deemed a cradle of Serbian identity...