Word: reformed
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...simple person." Singson, however, may be a role model for Pacquiao. The governor amassed his fortune as a tobacco-plantation owner and travels in a private plane and in a bulletproof Hummer. He is an epitome of Philippine politics, where power grows out of barrels of patronage. Political reformers worry that that is the style Pacquiao has been learning during his decade of kingdom-building and distributing wealth to family friends and allies. Ramon Casiple, a prominent political analyst and reform advocate, says Filipinos know that model too well to want it from their hero. "They don't want...
...order for Arab nations to move forward in the modern world, countries in the region must work to reform their education systems, foreign relationships, and the structure of their governments, according to Rima Khalaf, a former United Nations assistant secretary-general and the keynote speaker at last weekend’s third annual Harvard Arab Weekend Conference...
...event, a sit-down discussion between Pelosi and Center for Public Leadership Director David R. Gergen on leadership in a time of reform, was the most popular event at the IOP this year, according to Forum Committee Chair Christopher J. Hollyday ’11. More than 2,100 students and local residents entered a lottery for just 700 seats in the forum, Hollyday said...
While she said that she had concerns about the amendment herself, Pelosi also emphasized that the central issue to health care reform needed to be affordable care for all, not abortion...
...There are some who do not support health care reform, who want to use this issue to eclipse all the other wonderful things that are in our bill,” she said...