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...finally shaking off a malaise sparked by the Asian financial crisis of 1997 and extended by last year's SARS epidemic. Politically, too, Lee is inheriting a sound ship. His People's Action Party, which has ruled since 1959, holds all but two of the 84 elected seats in Parliament and won three-quarters of the popular vote in the 2001 general election, one of its best results ever...
...GEORGIA Firefights between government forces and separatists in the breakaway province of South Ossetia claimed at least three lives and wounded more than 60 before representatives from Russia, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and the Russian region of North Ossetia brokered a cease-fire. The Georgian parliament passed a resolution demanding that Russian peacekeepers deployed in South Ossetia be replaced by international troops...
...over. A Harvard lecturer and the first woman to lead an Olympic organizing committee, Angelopoulos-Daskalaki exudes so much power in such expensive skirts that she appears to have leaped fully formed from the imagination of Danielle Steel. Using her political clout as a former member of the Greek Parliament, her commercial savvy as the wife of a shipping tycoon and an impeccable instinct for knowing when to scare or seduce her adversaries, she somehow persuaded the government, which oversees all public works and Olympic construction in Greece, to begin a desperate game of catch-up on 138 Olympics-related...
...world in all its infinitely complicated, irreducible variety. But how can we the multitude--a vast, far-flung, inchoate bunch of people--reinvent democracy on a global scale? Hardt and Negri are glad you asked. The answer isn't simple--not like, say, electing some kind of international global parliament. Instead, Multitude insists that the new democracy can and must come not from the top down but from below, from the entirety of the multitude working and acting together, spontaneously and collaboratively. In the world of Multitude, it is the ruled, not the rulers, who will really run the show...
...development scheme think Kárahnjúkar will squander some of that wealth for insufficient economic benefit. "We have serious doubts about the old-fashioned industrialist thought" behind the project, says Steingrímur J. Sigfússon, a Left-Green Movement member of the Althingi, the Icelandic parliament, and one of a handful of legislators who opposed the Kárahnjúkar project. "We have to do something to reverse the trend of people moving away to seek work, but is this a good solution - one big factory with monotonous jobs?" Arnalds thinks it is. Unemployment...