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...political opposition in Hong Kong, the biggest issue is universal suffrage, whereby the Chief Executive and all of the Legislative Council are elected by popular vote. Yet Hong Kong's political system was never meant to be a carbon copy of any sovereign democracy. Unlike other colonies, Hong Kong did not become independent. It became part of a nation-China-and was given not full but a "high degree" of autonomy, under the principle of "one country, two systems." The level of this autonomy is set out in the Basic Law, Hong Kong's constitution under China...
...Constitutional reform. The current system is unsustainable for all stakeholders. The Chief Executive cannot claim a popular mandate, relying instead on the support of a narrow group of electors with vested commercial interests-a system that leads to backroom horse-trading. The Legislative Council also suffers from a democratic deficit. It does not truly represent the people because half its members hail from the same types of vested interests, yet possess the same voting power as those directly elected. The system is unfair because it favors a few over the whole. Hong Kong needs full democracy...
...Rudy on Rights In asserting that the right to bear arms is part of the U.S. Constitution, Rudy Giuliani expresses a popular understanding of that document's Second Amendment [Feb. 26]. When the U.S. was established, the right to bear arms was linked to what was regarded as the duty of every able-bodied citizen to protect the state. This is not the same as authorizing every citizen to keep arms for private purposes. Opponents of gun control have the right to argue their case, but reliance on an anachronistic provision does not appear to be a sound argument. Sundara...
...once-over for years, and never discerned much of a threat. They do now. Bayrou, 55, has jacked up his unlikely campaign for the French presidency into a real threat to the candidates who had until now been established front runners, conservative Nicolas Sarkozy of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) and Socialist Ségolène Royal. A recent poll put Bayrou and Royal in a dead heat for second place. If his rising trend continues, he could beat her in the first round of the elections on April 22. Only the top two finishers will qualify...
...same character in variations of the same movie. As a result, they eventually broadcast their resentment for the audiences that make them successful, à la Chevy Chase, or, like Jim Carrey, renounce them in pursuit of broader horizons. Ferrell not only doesn't chafe under the demands of popular taste--"I love playing the macho guy who looks like an idiot," he says--he has reduced movie stardom to a series of unpretentious, unthinking decisions. "Will's stand is, If it's good and it makes us laugh, I'm doing it," says Adam McKay, Ferrell's co-writer...