Word: reformer
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...must scurry for protection, with no help from our government, is outrageous. The idea that we have chosen to deregulate business through our own elections is nonsense! What has happened is that corporate money has influenced our politicians more than the votes of ordinary people. Until strong campaign-finance reform is enacted, the perfidy of "the best government money can buy" will continue. PHILIP A. STAHL Colorado Springs...
...star popularity by promising to do just that, but whose public support vanished this month when he caved in to Japan's troglodytic Old Guard - the bureaucrats and Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) hardliners - robbing the population of the hope of change. At the end of next month, Japan's reform-repellent banks will close their yearly books and reveal whether their assets, many of them shares on the super-depressed stock exchange, are substantial enough for solvency. (There's serious talk of the government having to nationalize a big part of the banking sector.) Beginning April 1, the government will...
...amount of hope in the belief that this quirky, outspoken and handsome politician could somehow save Japan. Koizumi's popularity was unprecedented, his approval ratings consistently hovering at about 80%. If anyone had a mandate to take on the nexus of vested interests and intransigent politicians who had derailed reform throughout the '90s, it was he. But he almost immediately went off track, agreeing to supplementary budgets, endorsing costly bailouts and waffling on banking reform. Then, last month, he dumped his Foreign Minister, Makiko Tanaka, whose bellicose banter and tough stand against prickly bureaucrats made her a popular icon among...
There's a growing belief that the Turkish judiciary itself is now on trial. If the political leadership, which has been flirting with reform, avoids setting strict criteria for positive change, many feel, judges will be left to interpret the laws as they see fit - and not necessarily in ways that will help Turkey on its path to E.U. membership. "Law is not local anymore," says Vahit Bicak, who lectures on human rights at the Ankara Police Academy. "We are part of an international legal system and must have respect for global values...
...rumors flew about misconduct, skating officials began an investigation and Canada filed an appeal. "Skategate" was born, raining humiliation on the sport but also raising the possibility of reform in a world that insiders say is insular, secretive and corrupt...