Word: progressives
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...Progress Report Later, taking a break in an unoccupied office, a tired Misra laments the state of public health. "This place is one of the good ones," he says. "I have seen hospitals with dogs below the beds." After graduating, Misra spent a few years in India's northeast, one of the poorest parts of the country. "I went to the rural area to serve the people but the government doesn't recognize that," he says, explaining that classmates who went to big cities "are now professors and earning big bucks." The system, he says, is set up so that...
Turkey's economic surge is, moreover, a sign of underlying political progress. The West couldn't hide its nervousness when the Justice and Development Party (AKP) was elected in 2002. The AKP is moderately Islamist, but its economics have turned out to be decidedly liberal. The party has nurtured economic reforms that have tamed inflation, stabilized a jittery currency and entrenched the independence of the country's central bank. Privatization of state-owned properties continues to attract outside investors. Turkey's application to join the E.U. is stalled on objections by France and Germany, among others. But the process...
Carter came away from his mid-April meetings with some apparent progress. Hamas leaders told him they'd accept a peace deal that included an Israeli state if Palestinians approved it in a referendum. But, as President Bush said Tuesday, "they say one thing and do another." In fact, America's diplomats are as worried about what Hamas will do in coming weeks as they were about the meeting with Carter last month...
...doing in 10 years? -Catherine Pilie, COVINGTON, LA.At 16 I said, I want to be a journalist. I want to work on a newsmagazine. I want to do a documentary. I had it all planned out. Now I'm gentler with myself. I say, I'm a work in progress. I could be writing books in 10 years. I could be living on an island. I could be traveling around the world...
...really prestigious thing to win,” Thomas said. “That was definitely a good experience; she jumped really well. She won by being very consistent and by doing what she does best.”Thomas adds that Christensen’s progress this season is something that helped her win on Friday. “Her consistency, her takeoff and her approach has become something very easy and very smooth,” Thomas said.Christensen believes that her success hangs on her ability to be calm and relaxed during a meet, qualities that captain Sally...