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...Hong Kong that same weekend, thousands protested against Beijing's timetable for democratization in the territory, which last month ruled out the possibility of direct elections in 2012 in favor of a vague promise to consider them in 2017 and 2020. Pro-democracy activists, impatient with the pace of reform and skeptical of Beijing's guarantees, carried banners denouncing the Chinese Communist Party and demanding direct elections for both the chief executive and legislative council - now largely chosen by a small group of pro-Beijing business leaders - in four years. Under cloudy skies, a throng of demonstrators that rally organizers...
...Tuesday the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform, one of the most powerful investigative bodies in Congress, is to hear testimony from former Senator George Mitchell, the author of the report that linked some 90 players to the possible possession or use of performance-enhancing drugs. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig and union chief Donald Fehr will join Mitchell at the hearing, in which Congress will pressure the executives to implement the report's recommendations, which include a truly independent drug testing program and more frequent year-round, unannounced tests (Selig has already acted on a few of them...
...about its performance-enhancing drug problem. Back in 2005, Mark McGwire's low moment - "I'm not here to talk about the past" - shed light on the steroid issue, and forced baseball to act. But trying to shame, or even vindicate, Roger Clemens a month later? How does that reform the game...
...Though he made no overt comments about a bid to become the E.U.'s first president next January, Blair's repeated references to Europe, globalization, and bipartisan efforts to reform and modernize made his aspirations evident. So, too, did Blair's role as guest speaker at the Saturday meeting of 2,500 leaders from the rightist Union for a Popular Majority party of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The assembled conservatives applauded the former U.K. premier's calls to "take the future by the horns" and resist "retreating to comfort zones of out-dated slogans and old remedies...
...Bahrain, whose oil ran out a few years ago, all Bush got was a sword dance. Which was charming. It's not as if Bahrain doesn't have money - it just doesn't have obscene amounts of money from oil exports. Not coincidentally democratic reform has moved forward consistently over the last ten years, producing a new constitution and a bicameral parliament. A U.S. ambassador in the region says the relationship between oil wealth and democratic development explains the difference. "Bahrain has a large population that's unemployed and there are debates about resource allocation," he says. "If people...