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...challenge like this one. Although trained as a foreign policy realist who has argued the U.S. should act based on a cold calculus of national interest, rather than to advance ideological goals, Rice has more recently embraced Bush's gauzy belief that pursuing the ambitious aim of bringing political reform to the Arab world represents the best possible salve against the threat of Islamic terrorism. "What are your choices?" she asks. "Your choices are: to somehow reinstitute control, which would be against our principles, or to have faith in the democratic enterprise as one actually that is quite capable...
...fair, hukou reforms have been underway. Some cities have loosened requirements so that rural migrants who have lived and worked there for a year can obtain urban hukous. Others have started allowing registration of rural hukou-holders from outlying counties. But these reforms are still moving too slowly. Only the small cities have begun reform, but most migrants go to larger cities where integration remains difficult...
...much to suggest the immediate elimination of the hukou system, but the system should be changed: first to allow Chinese citizens to live where they want without excessive bureaucratic restrictions, and second to eliminate the distinction between rural and urban. Reform will mean more human mobility, which in turn means a freer labor force. Furthermore, large-city dwellers could move to other cities, giving middle-sized cities huge growth potential. Given the many social and economic advantages to hukou reform, it would be unwise for China's government to wait much longer...
...largely managed to avoid his father's notoriety for cronyism and back-room dealing, a record of corruption that led to a federal ban in 1983 on almost all politically motivated hiring in Cook County. Instead Daley has won praise for spurring economic development, reducing crime and trying to reform public housing and education--which earned him a place as one of America's Best Mayors in TIME earlier this year. But now it seems that legacy may be in jeopardy, and some political observers question whether Daley can win re-election in two years...
...Mithab, minister of municipal and rural affairs, who is considered close to the new King, and Prince Abdulrahman, deputy minister of defense, who like Nayef, Sultan and the late king, hails from the rival Sudeiri branch of the family. A long shot is Prince Talal, who runs an Arab reform organization and is the father of billionaire global investor Prince Alwaleed...