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...stable is better, for there you have a donkey that carries a load and a cow that provides milk. The parliament is worse than a stable.' MALALAI JOYA, female member of the Afghan parliament and longtime critic of fellow legislators whom she deems to be warlords. Joya was suspended after making the comment, in a television interview, that compared parliament to a stable...
...largely emanates from her renouncing power and allowing economist Manmohan Singh to become Prime Minister; staying in the background has enabled her to look after party affairs. It is her sphinxlike silence, dignified conduct and adoption of Indian culture that are largely responsible for her repeated re-election to Parliament by record margins. But Gandhi should act more assertively and deliver government change more speedily to the common man. Jagmohan Manchanda, New Delhi...
...economic reality made the results of the Royal Plowing Ceremony even more bitter for Cambodia's deeply superstitious farmers. A member of parliament watching the recalcitrant cows said he thought it was the most pathetic display of bovine appetite in more than a decade. (Making the sting more painful: royal cows at a similar ceremony in neighboring Thailand a few days later ate grass, corn and rice with gusto...
...elections could provide the outline of a partial solution to those problems. That solution could look like this: Musharraf would step down as army chief and be re-elected for a final term as President; Bhutto, the leader of the party likely to have the largest representation in Parliament, would become Prime Minister; and Chaudhry, his suspension reversed, would serve out his remaining tenure as Chief Justice...
...indeed, there is a tonic for struggling nations to be derived from triumphing in this annual contest of camp and kitsch - won last year by a Finnish rock band in monster costumes - then few needed it as much as the Serbians did. Days before Saturday's Eurovision finals, the parliament chose the ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party leader Tomislav Nikolic as its speaker. A divisive holdover from Serbia's tortured past, Nikolic had served as vice premier in the government of former dictator Slobodan Milosevic. True to form, he caused an outrage recently by vowing to cut Serbia's ties with...