Word: parliamentarians
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Industrialist, parliamentarian, and suave football diplomat who brought the World Cup to South Korea, Chung Mong Joon wants you to know he's also a jock. Flying down to southern Cheju Island from Seoul to watch a football game a week before the Cup, Chung, 50, is leaning back in his seat and pointing to his left elbow, which he banged up playing basketball. He shifts his left shoulder: crushed bones and severed tendons in a ski-racing accident. Then there's the right knee fractured by a football tackle. Pointing to a scar on his right hand, he smiles...
...reasons Cambodia is blasE about foreigners using child prostitutes is that so many Cambodian men do it, too. Late last year, female parliamentarian Khem Chamroeun pointed her finger around the National Assembly and declared that some of her fellow lawmakers were known to patronize underage prostitutes. No one contradicted her. "A man going to a brothel is the same as going for a beer," says Mu Sochua, the outspoken Minister of Women's Affairs...
Netanyahu's supporters say his record in office was good. "Bibi cut the budget, and he reduced terrorist attacks," says Yuval Steinitz, a Likud parliamentarian. "It's his personal behavior that cost him his job." Besides, they contend, Netanyahu got a bad rap because he led the opposition when a right-winger assassinated Rabin in 1995--a time when Israel was deeply divided on the merits of the peace process. But Israel now is not what it was then. "People believed Pollyannaishly in the Oslo accords," Netanyahu says. "I was accused of foiling the dream. This time it's clear...
...more powerful nations. As a member state, the party warns, Switzerland could be forced by the Security Council to take part in international sanctions and military actions. "We would also lose the right to have our own foreign policy and diplomatic relations," says Ulrich Schlüer, an SVP parliamentarian, apparently overlooking the fact that the foreign policies of current members such as the United States and Iraq have yet to converge. Lurking behind his party's opposition is the deeper fear that joining the U.N. would be a stalking horse for full European integration. After last year's defeat...
...despite the escalation, there are also small but significant and growing signs of new thinking emerging in the region. The Jerusalem Post carried a commentary by leftwing parliamentarian Naomi Chazan on a recent Israeli-Palestinian sit-down in South Africa, in which both sides apprised themselves of the lessons of that country's near-miraculous negotiated peaceful transition away from minority rule. And in Egypt's official Al Ahram, commentator Hani Shukrallah offers a withering critique of an intifada hijacked by suicide bombers. "The Biblical Samson strikes a ridiculous, rather than heroic, figure," he writes. "Not to mention that...