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...Museum Nauseum, an intimate 80-seat theater, old political posters advise voters to bly blank my volk (Stay White My People), and there's an official portrait of the 1983 Cabinet Ministers' wives - "Where they all look like drag queens" - which Uys confesses was stolen by an M.P. from Parliament for Evita. But it's not all about the past. For up-to-the-minute satire, head outside to her Boerassic Park, where the garden gnomes include President Thabo Mbeki driving a "gravy train...
...succeed, he must mediate between an Aceh not yet prepared to trust its old oppressors-the central government and the military-and a Jakarta still unconvinced of the new governor's loyalty to the nation. (At his inauguration inside the parliament building in Banda Aceh, Irwandi stood politely as the Indonesian anthem played, while Acehnese watching via screens outside jeered.) In return for G.A.M. abandoning its claim for independence, Jakarta has promised Aceh greater autonomy over its own affairs. But Irwandi must still win over a local legislature packed with pro-Jakarta nationalists and reform a dysfunctional bureaucracy which, with...
...done before. When it became clear there weren't enough women at the top, governments across Europe introduced quotas and other initiatives to boost the numbers. Britain's Labour Party adopted women-only short lists in some constituencies for the 1997 election, and saw the number of women in Parliament double from 60 to 120. Without similar measures to bring more European minorities into power positions, huge swaths of the population will always feel powerless. "I wouldn't underestimate the importance of politics as part of this conversation," says Geoff Mulgan, head of think tank the Young Foundation in London...
...Fine that companies would pay for causing environmental disasters, under a new law proposed in the European Parliament...
DIED. Ian Richardson, 72, veteran Scottish actor whose rich portrayals of Shakespearean schemers set the tone for his most famous role, the immoral British Parliament member Francis Urquhart on British TV's satirical cult hit House of Cards; of unknown causes; in London. As an oily politician, he created a catchphrase used for reporters and others--and jokingly cited by real-life leaders worldwide. "You may very well say that," he would answer an inquisitor before quickly adding, "I couldn't possibly comment...