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...depth of its roots in the Lebanese mainstream. The Iran-backed Islamist organization, which maintains a militia that would likely be more than a match for the Lebanese national army in the event of a showdown, currently holds more seats than any other single party in Lebanon's parliament. The party is the major voice in the Shiite community, which today may be around 40 percent of Lebanon's population...
...movement is adept at staying on-side with Lebanese public opinion, complementing its military activity, directed largely against Israel for the past decade, with a massive welfare operation among the Shiite poor and by contesting parliamentary elections - Hizballah is currently the single largest party in Lebanon's patchwork parliament. Its share of parliamentary seats may even grow if the Syrians depart, since Hizballah advocates have long believed the Syrians actually cheated Nasrallah's movement out of a few seats in order to bolster the parliamentary presence of its own Shiite favorite, the Amal movement of Nabi Berri, the speaker...
...remember that progress in the Middle East invariably moves a few steps forward--then a few steps back. Even as thousands of Lebanese gathered in Beirut's Martyrs' Square on Saturday to call on Syria to end its occupation, thousands of Syrians cheered Assad as he told his parliament that he would make only a partial pullback of Syrian forces. "Bush, Bush, listen. The Syrian people will not bow!" chanted the crowd...
...origins. The budget, which increases spending on a range of antipoverty measures, is easily the most ambitious effort to channel India's robust economic growth into solving its most enduring problem. "Given the resilience of the Indian economy," the Finance Minister said in his speech to India's Parliament, "it is possible to ... launch a direct assault on poverty and unemployment." He then earmarked $5.7 billion for a series of programs aimed at bolstering education, infrastructure, housing, nutrition and health care, especially in India's villages, where the bulk of poor Indians reside. Chidambaram, a Harvard-educated lawyer...
...have up and running by 2008. But before they can file suit in court they'll need to have been counseled by someone, even if it's separately by their lawyers. An amendment to the Family Law Act will "say to the (legal) profession very clearly that the Parliament wants you to be a mediator, a conciliator, and not a party to legal warfare," says Ruddock. "In other words, forget the adversarial role in which you've been trained . . . and recognize that there is a new role." (Most family lawyers would say they already perform this role...