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...cooled among G.O.P. colleagues. "At first," he says. "I was pretty much walled off." And there has been some payback: Republicans undermined a Northeast dairy compact that subsidizes Vermont farmers, and they've refused to add extra money that Jeffords wanted for disabled students in the education reform bill passed last week...
...became, as TIME put it, "a symbol of hope for a new kind of Soviet Union: more open, more concerned with the welfare of its citizens and less with the spread of its ideology and system abroad." What did spread, at home and abroad, was a fever of democratic reform. Soviet satellite states gained independence. The Berlin Wall fell. The cold war faded. The ferment grew chaotic and eventually swept away Gorbachev and the Soviet Union. But for surviving so long and so boldly and imaginatively as "the patron of change," Gorbachev was again TIME's choice in 1989, this...
That's probably the tone of things to come. The further Bush gets from Sept. 11, the more the numbers 2002 and 2004 will matter. Already, under pressure from Speaker Hastert, the President has quietly agreed to postpone any real push to reform Social Security until after next fall's election. Karl Rove, Bush's top political adviser, denies that Bush has changed anything on Social Security, but Hastert has told allies that he has the President's word. Bush told friends during the campaign last year that he had, at most, 18 months to get something done. Some Republicans...
...would be symbolically and historically fitting if the next great reform of Islam came from the diaspora in the West. After all, the starting point of the Muslim calendar is not the year of Muhammad's birth but the day 1,379 years ago when the Prophet led his followers from his birthplace in Mecca to found a new community in Medina. "The very foundation of Islamic civilization was built on diaspora, on the move from Mecca to Medina," says British Muslim writer Sardar. "This is where the diaspora is very important: in creating a truly moderate tradition...
...Best Reform Credit Russia for its ongoing overhaul of the country's taxation system. This year Moscow introduced a flat personal income tax rate of 13%, a move designed to encourage citizens to pay the excise rather than opt for often expensive avoidance schemes. Reports suggest personal income tax receipts have risen 70% as a result...