Word: reformer
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...foster homes or state-run orphanages will take in teens who have gotten in trouble with the law. Only two state-run reform facilities in Tokyo accept girls, and then just a handful. The regimen at one, a century-old institution in a leafy suburb, remains unchanged from the days of its founding. Girls in their early to mid-teens exercise, study and farm sweet potatoes and cabbages. They live cheek-by-jowl in tatami-mat rooms, sunny and clean but devoid of pop-star posters or any personal belongings whatsoever?the girls can't have cell phones, makeup...
...named his "new" cabinet, reappointing most ministers and replacing Targamadze with one of the former Interior Minister's deputies, the debate had shifted. Parliamentary factions realigned amid deals and odd alliances, and no one could figure out who exactly was the opposition anymore. Two points of view emerged: reform vs. status...
...longer a pariah state, that Islamabad is suddenly Islamagood. Germany and Japan have again gone to war, this time on the same side as Britain and the U.S. Iran, which long called America the Great Satan, is showing more signs than ever that it is on the road to reform, and can play a role in rebuilding neighboring Afghanistan. But what's changed in Chechnya? Are the Balkans any less bitterly divided? Is Spain's terror-riven Basque country any more unified...
...Though some of the steps taken so far may seem tiny, they are in fact giant leaps forward for Iran's reform movement. For example, in early October around the time when the FBI put Hizballah operative Imad Mugniyah on its most-wanted list, Tehran told him in no uncertain terms to leave the country, a move that would have been unthinkable 15 years ago when Iran was a supporter of Hizballah terrorist activity in Lebanon directed against Israeli and Western interests...
...What's changed? Iran's reform movement has been revived following the attacks, opening up the possibility of better relations with the West...