Word: reformer
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...legitimacy over the Communist Party. Released five years ago, Ren can now crusade against Beijing's current attempt to be host to the 2008 Summer Games. But he isn't, and not because he's afraid. Instead he is hopeful that the Games will empower leaders who favor political reform. "China needs to improve its human rights," he says, "Opposing the Olympics won't help reach that goal...
...Democracy Party, Shan Chengfeng, wrote an open letter in December asking the IOC to press for the release of her activist husband and "every political prisoner," or that she is serving two years in a labor camp for her missive. Still, dissident Sha Yuguang, who has pressed for democratic reform for two decades, is typical in hoping that a Beijing Games will "bring China closer to the world, which helps promote political reform...
...gone. He presents demands, like permission for women to wear Islamic headscarves at universities, not as threats to the secular state but as basic rights. Even so, a Turkish establishment that includes the army still suspects his moderation is just fa?ade. Other critics say he's too provincial to reform Turkey and lead it into the E.U. His reply, still to be tested, is that no one else can persuade ordinary Turks that these goals are within their reach...
...liberal Missouri Democrat who likes to fire up party faithful and a conservative Arizona Republican who likes to buck his party. But House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt and Sen. John McCain now have two things in common - passions for the presidency and for getting Congress to pass campaign finance reform. Gephardt, who's exploring a run in 2004, has staked his legislative reputation and perhaps his future campaign, on the measure. McCain, who hasn't gotten over his primary loss to George Bush and might be tempted to mount another try if W falters, wants desperately to pass the bill...
...contributions to national parties. (It totaled $487 million in the 2000 election.) Gephardt worked the phones to stanch hemorrhaging by Democrats, who provide the bulk of support for the bill. McCain, who shepherded a similar measure through the Senate last April, targeted some 40 GOP congressmen who've backed reform in the past. His Straight Talk America PAC, for example, sent e- mails to 200,000 supporters across the country urging them to flood the congressional offices with phone calls...