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...majesty. The sheer length of the national highway, its obstinate sameness, means the journey can be a lonely and humbling experience, especially so for those in a hurry. So slow down, take in the view with fresh eyes, and meet some of the characters who live on Australia's premier route...
...thanks to his own political makeover and the internal squabbles of Yushchenko's once triumphant coalition, Yanukovych came Friday afternoon to the Supreme Rada, Ukraine?s National Legislature, to be confirmed as Ukraine?s new Premier - and, as a result of recent reforms, actually take over many of the Presidential powers of his onetime nemesis, Yushchenko. The flamboyant Yuliya Tymoshenko, Yuschchenko's own onetime revolutionary partner and prime minister and now leader of the parliament's Byut faction, decried ?the sellout of the Orange Revolution" and pledged "stiff opposition? to the hatching coalition government of Yanukovych's PR faction...
...also be seen as evidence of an unprecedented political maturity in the fledgling democracy. ?The Orange Revolution was all about fair elections rather than individuals,? reminds Viktor Nebozhenko, an authoritative Kiev-based political analyst. For the first time ever in the region, Ukraine has both a President and a Premier elected in fair elections, with the first opportunity to learn what separation of powers really means...
...Instead, in a sudden about-face, the Socialists formed a Coalition with the PR and the Communists. That left Yushchenko with the legal option of nominating the Coalition Leader Yanukovych, however distasteful to him, for Premier, or disbanding the Rada, which risked aggravating the nation?s already yawning split. With suspense growing - and with two pre-taped TV addresses to the nation, one proclaiming the Rada disbanded, the other one announcing the ?Two-Viktors-One-Country? conciliatory formula - Yushchenko chose the last-minute compromise...
...toned-down wording may be a sign of Beijing's ambivalence about how tough to get with Kim, but few doubt its sincerity in wanting to defuse this crisis. Last week, for example, China tried to negotiate with Pyongyang independently, dispatching a Deputy Premier and assistant foreign minister to Pyongyang. "China's really trying," said Hill, who is U.S. President George W. Bush's point man on the North Korea nuclear issue. "We're trying. Everyone is trying except, unfortunately, the D.P.R.K." (North Korea officially calls itself the Democratic People's Republic of Korea...