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...hurts most - in the wallet. The country's consumer price index hit an 11-year high of 6.5% in October due largely to rising food and fuel costs. The storms will almost certainly cause another spike. Frigid temperatures across 14 provinces in China are destroying vegetable crops and will "push up food prices further in January and February," says Jun Ma, chief China economist at Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong. The consequences could be serious, says Simpfendorfer of the Royal Bank of Scotland. "Even if [inflation] creeps up to 7.5%, that grabs the headlines and will affect expectations...
...decade-long civil war. To Sharma, both the Maoists and the Nepal Army are guilty of a catalog of atrocities, from forced recruitment to extrajudicial killings. Attaining justice for the victims (and compensation for the nearly 200,000 displaced) ought to be as important to the country's push toward democracy as elections. "But human rights don't seem to be anyone's priorities here," she laments. "The problem is a failure of political leadership...
...player will be House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is against retroactive immunity for the telecoms but is being pressured to cave by moderate Democrats who face tough re-election battles this fall. "She's going to push very hard to not have immunity," says a top Pelosi aide, but "it just depends how much leverage she has." To outsiders, that sounds like a walk-up to folding, and civil-liberties groups are pressuring Democratic House chairmen to push back. "It's completely in her hands," says Michelle Richardson of the ACLU. "Nothing can force her to have the House vote...
...staged withdrawal from Iraq, another group of experts was putting together a very different plan. Fred Kagan of the American Enterprise Institute and retired Army General Jack Keane began calling not for a pullout but for an escalation of troops?a one-time infusion of combat soldiers to push the insurgents out of Baghdad. The Kagan-Keane plan found an eager audience at the National Security Council and with Vice President Dick Cheney. Within days, the plan had been sold to Bush, who pulled out a lot of stops to persuade the Pentagon?as well as colleagues in Congress...
...supporters of Saddam a measure of eligibility for service in the new government, which is largely controlled by Shi'ites. The move was long overdue, and no one knows whether the measure will ever be implemented; Sunnis are skeptical, and so, at times, is Washington. "We nudge. We push. We prod. We pull. We cajole," says U.S. ambassador Ryan Crocker. But he adds that the Iraqis "have to make the decision...