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...Tbikh, an aspiring politician in his mid-30s from the holy city of Najaf. Two months ago, the interim government announced plans to hold a national conference to pick 100 members of a temporary national assembly, which would give some public input to the governing of Iraq before a parliament can be elected next year. Abu Tbikh was determined to participate and make his voice heard. "We believed it would be the solution to getting rid of the U.S. puppet government," he said. But when his local caucus convened in Najaf to pick delegates for the Baghdad conference, Abu Tbikh...
...hours) at the same pay, as well as agreeing to limit salary increases to 1% annually over the next three years. They also agreed to cut extra pay for working night shifts, recalculate company-paid vacations and give up a public holiday. Jean Le Garrec, a Socialist member of parliament, said the Bosch deal was the result of "employees struggling, rage in their hearts, to save their jobs." Does the Bosch move mean France's 35-hour week is dead? Technically, no. The concession Bosch squeezed out of its workers falls within guidelines hammered out last year by the government...
According to Japan's spring 2004 Directory of Parliament Officials, Representative Katsuya Okada's personal motto is Tai ki ban sei, a classic Japanese proverb that means "Great talents mature late." But considering that the new president of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) has rocketed from relative obscurity to what could be the golden era of his political career-all at the comparatively tender age of 52-he may want to revise that motto before the next guide is printed. With the DPJ's strong showing in the recent Upper House parliamentary election, Okada has cemented his position...
...Howard on his solitary morning walks; a leader who appears at home with George W. Bush and the Queen, but out of place (an "abandoned lunch box" quipped former Liberal leader John Hewson) at a pre-school; a statesman who keeps the press at bay behind a barrier at Parliament House but cosies up to the millionaire talkback radio kings for a nice chat. For voters, it's a choice between two indelible archetypes: Labor's "too fast, too furious" man at the wheel, and a Bradman-era P. M. in the prime of his life...
...alleges that the Socialists illegally encouraged supposedly spontaneous antigovernment rallies on March 13, which fell within the 24-hour pre-election "period of reflection" during which campaigning is prohibited. The PP demanded the mobile-phone records of Socialist politicians, which they said would reveal their collusion, but parliament's legal advisers told them such a release would breach Spanish privacy-protection laws. So far, the inquiry has provided riveting political theater but little more. Unless both parties get down to examining how the terrorists carried out the atrocities, it won't do much to thwart future attacks. "It's good...