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...presidential offices. "I think the President may consider our building an eyesore," says KMT spokesman Tsai Cheng-yuan. Some members say publicly that they should return all questionable assets to the government, rather than face the humiliation of being forced to divest. Coming clean would, says KMT parliamentarian Wu Den-yi, "relieve the party of a historical burden." Even if the cost is its showcase headquarters, the KMT may find it's time to leave its lucrative past behind...
...much of the Israeli settler movement and plays an ever greater role in Israel's hostility toward Palestinian nationalist claims. "Our connection to the land goes back to our first ancestor. Arabs have no right to the land of Israel," says Rabbi Haim Druckman, a settler leader and a parliamentarian with the National Religious Party. This argument infuriates Palestinian Muslims--especially since the Koran claims that Abraham was not a Jew but Islam's first believer. "The people who supported Abraham believed in one God and only one God, and that was the Muslims. Only the Muslims," says Sheik Taysir...
...When the Long War finally ended, with the reunification of Germany and the fall of communism in the Soviet Union, we thought we would have peace because we had resolved the question that bound all these wars into one: What form of the nation-state--fascist, communist or parliamentarian--would succeed the imperial states of the 19th century? When this was answered by the triumph of parliamentarian democracy, some thought the "end of history" had come, that the struggle to achieve a final constitutional order had ended...
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...