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...with Pabst's Diary of a Lost Girl, where she's Thiamine, an innocent girl suffering under men's predations - lots of them. The story is like a Dickens novel but with plenty of sex. Her father gets all his serving girls pregnant; his assistant gets Thiamine pregnant; the reform school she's sent to is run by a hairless sadist and his weird wife, who comes to orgasm beating a drum while the girls do their calisthenics. And that's just the first half-hour...
...about Iraq, it’s important to remember the original asserted intention of this administration was to institute democracy throughout the Middle East. And, as a corollary, it’s important to remember the media’s role of holding the President accountable for his ambitious reform program, “a forward strategy of freedom in the Middle East,” to use the president’s words. While the truth about Iraq eventually found the front pages, the administration’s policy in other countries still goes virtually unreported...
...State of the Union address, the president gently urged the Saudis to follow the path of democratic reform: “The government of Saudi Arabia can demonstrate its leadership in the region by expanding the role of its people in determining their future.” Speaking more recently, Bush reiterated the administration’s desire for Saudi democracy in a September speech to the UN, even making passing reference to some minor improvements seen in the last few years. “Some of the changes in the Middle East are happening gradually...
...referring to the broad reform agenda--fiscal, labor, energy and competition--that outgoing President Vicente Fox unveiled but then failed to deliver on. Although more politically adroit, Caldern inherits a far more acrimonious political environment, in which Lpez Obrador still insists he is the legitimate President. This surely will complicate Caldern's dealings with the public-sector unions and with sensitive symbols like the national oil company, Pemex, which desperately needs foreign investment, now outlawed. "Mexico needs to think outside the sovereignty box," says Raul Rodriguez, former CEO of the North American Development Bank, but Mexico...
Pemex is now the government's cash cow, providing about 30% of federal revenues, a dependence that has torpedoed fiscal reform. Nonoil tax collection, as a percentage of GDP, is about 10%--about the same as in Haiti. Lopez Obrador's economic team calculated that an additional 2% to 3 % of GDP could be recouped with more rigorous tax collection, which would mean cracking down on rampant tax evasion--roughly at 50%--and the widespread abuse of legal but economically unjustified tax exemptions. "All businesses should pay tax without exemptions," says Jos Luis Barraza, president of the Consejo Coordinador Empresarial...