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Just as Vargas Llosa’s proposals for reform seemed removed from everyday reality, his economic analysis largely considers macroeconomic indicators like GDP, despite his admission that internal inequalities make such statistics grossly misrepresentative...
...timing of Schwarzenegger's troubles could not be worse. He is trying to sell an ambitious program for political and economic reform directly to voters, and has already been forced to postpone an amendment--one of four he was hoping to push through this year--that would overhaul the state's pension system. With his agenda and pugnacious style provoking the ire of the state's powerful unions, one observer, former Governor and current Oakland mayor Jerry Brown, suggests that Schwarzenegger may want to "evaluate his range of adversaries and look for ways in which accommodations can be made...
Despite the uproar last week, White House officials insisted President Bush has no intention of withdrawing Bolton's nomination. The President stoutly called Bolton the "right man at the right time" to badger a sclerotic U.N. into reform. "There is going to be a more forceful approach in the coming days to make this a debate about the United Nations and not John Bolton," says a senior White House official. "He has rough edges, but that's what you want right...
...saved the British left from socialist irrelevance. His "New" Labour has proved a more lasting achievement than Bill Clinton's "New" Democrats. It is a majority party that has combined prudent free-market economics with increased spending on social programs and a notable, if still incomplete, reform of the British welfare state. Yet Blair staggers to the finish line, unloved and untrusted...
...learned German theologian in his youth, Benedict was instrumental in one of the great reforms of the Catholic Church, the Second Vatican Council—the reform movement that decisively brought the Church into the modern age. During this council, Benedict was a key progressive voice arguing in favor of reuniting the clergy with the laypeople and emphasizing the Vatican’s role in working with the faithful rather than its authority over them. He has remained consistent in this belief and others, though the ideological label applied to him has changed drastically over the years. His recent remark...