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...attack. He has had many years not just to refine his political philosophy but also to explain it in a way voters might accept and with luck even admire. Throw the Latte Liberal label at him, and Kerry will counter with his support for faith-based programs and welfare reform and the fact that he proposed a dividend tax cut long before Bush did. "They're going to have a hard time pinning that to me," Kerry once told TIME. "They're not going to find it is easy making me something I'm not." And besides, he said...
...Italian Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti challenged his G-7 partners over the weekend to follow suit on his country's draft plan to crack down on tax havens. At a meeting of G-7 Finance Ministers in Florida, Tremonti unveiled details of the proposal - part of a broader regulatory reform to respond to the Parmalat scandal - that requires Italian companies to be far more transparent about offshore holdings, including the way they are accounted for (or not) on the books. In the U.S., John Kerry, the front runner in the race to become the Democrats' candidate for President, is promising...
...Radicals was out of the question because of their openly extremist agenda, so it was widely expected that Kostunica would turn to the reformist Democratic Party, which dominated Serbian politics until its chairman Zoran Djindjic was assassinated last March. Kostunica and Djindjic never saw eye to eye on reform, and the DSS leader failed to do a deal with Djindjic's successors, Zoran Zivkovic and Boris Tadic. Kostunica then teamed up with two smaller centrist parties and turned to Slobo's old gang, whose 22 seats gave him just enough to reach a majority. Out of power and with their...
...Khatami. That, in turn, would set the stage for a possible conservative victory in next year's election to choose Khatami's successor. But even before their boycott, the reformists had been bracing for a poor showing in the voting because of widespread public disillusionment over the failure of reform. After plastering his vehicle with pro-Khatami posters three years ago, Tehran taxi driver Arash Khaqani, 27, endured a beating by hard-line thugs. Now, he says, "I wouldn't support anyone's campaign so enthusiastically." In fact, he is not planning to vote...
...Ventura won the Minnesota gubernatorial race as a third-party candidate on the Reform party ticket...