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...People speak more openly in Syria than they have in the past. The President's allies are candid, if not yet quotable, about their disappointment in him. Yet even Assad's reform-minded opponents seem to believe that he remains the best hope for change. "I am a doctor," said Kamal Labwani, a Damascus Spring activist recently released from jail. "The President is a doctor. Does he think we'll be able to live like this another 40 years? I don't think...
...nail right on the head. I am a Republican, and although I believe in many of the positions that the Democratic Party supports, I think it is out of touch with the majority of voters. For too long the party has held on to old issues. It needs to reform itself in order to survive in this new era. And Democrats need to see and accept achievement when it occurs. Many people where I live feel the same way. The Republicans are doers, and the Democrats are complainers. The Dems need to change if they want to have any sort...
...idea for the perfect spot: their on-off home, the European Parliament complex in Strasbourg. Their motives are both altruistic and self-serving. Since the mid-90s, parliament has shuttled monthly between Brussels and Strasbourg - at a cost of €200 million a year. The Campaign for Parliamentary Reform (CPR) argues that money is wasted. The French disagree. "I've always voted to keep the seat here because it's an important European symbol," says M.E.P. Christine de Veyrac of France's center-right UMP Party. And the city itself invokes the 1997 treaty that calls for it to host...
...impressed is Porter that he's retaining Ideo's services again for the design of a new hospital. In fact, Ideo is developing something of an expertise in medical reform, also working with clients like the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., to create mini-Ideos--permanent design-research facilities that work like prototype factories within the organizations. The Mayo facility has already created one Ideo-like product: a check-in kiosk based on those e-ticket machines at airports so that Mayo patients don't have to wait in line just to sign...
...Shortly after its May Budget, the Australian government will legislate to reform a system that almost everyone - from shattered, working-class dads to the country's sharpest legal minds - agrees is broken. "These will be the most substantial reforms of family law since the 1970s," says Federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock, who envisages a cheaper, quicker and less adversarial system designed to give both parents, wherever possible, every chance to stay involved with their kids...