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...stump in 2004. Some aides have visions of the local-news-friendly "tax families" who appeared with Bush back in 2001, as he promised that if you pay taxes, his plan would give you relief. But in one indication of the kind of autumn it's been, the tax-reform commission he appointed to lay the groundwork for new tax legislation reported back last week with an unsalable hash that one senior Administration official called "a dog." So White House and Treasury officials will have to rewrite it, stripping out, among other things, a proposal to scale back the politically...
...China prepares to be host to the Olympics in 2008, officials have begun to acknowledge the need to raise the level of public civility in order to show the world the country's advances after just three decades of economic reform. Once the flood of foreign visitors recedes, bureaucrats hope the manners makeover will stick with Chinese citizens and help make their cities more livable. "We are quite behind when it comes to fundamental etiquette," concedes Chen Zhenmin, deputy director of the Shanghai Spiritual Civilization Office. In Shanghai, China's most cosmopolitan city, local leaders have unveiled a campaign called...
...self-described “passionate progressive,” Gordon now wants to reform a City Council that he says is “really threatened by the concept of openness...
...economy, Brazil) or have leftists leading in the polls for upcoming presidential elections (including Mexico and Bolivia). Failure to engage the region's new politics will not only have economic consequences; it could also imperil other key U.S. goals in the hemisphere such as the war on drugs, immigration reform and the consolidation of democracy...
...before we embark on another event of this scale.While we commend members of the HCC for their marathon effort, we must not accept this as “business as usual” at the HCC or the UC. Before we consider future activities for the HCC, significant institutional reform such as those enumerated above need to be explored and implemented. As elected members of the council, we will not in good conscience continue to spend students’ termbill fees on a system that cannot produce popular results.The overwhelming sentiment among UC members, almost a dozen of whom explicitly...