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...think twice today about poking fun at Ebadi, whose struggle for human rights in Iran has earned her the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize. In naming Ebadi last week, Norway's Nobel Committee handed a platform to a formidable Iranian voice of conscience, breathed life into the country's dying reform movement and put the Islamic regime on notice. Ebadi has never believed that Islam and reform are doomed to be at odds. "There is absolutely nothing incompatible or contradictory about Islam, democracy and political freedom," she told TIME in Paris, where she learned of the award. "There is much...
Though her friends consider her still in danger from vigilante death squads, Ebadi continues to defend those facing imprisonment for their pro-democracy activities. But Iran's reform movement has been brutally suppressed in recent years, and it seems doubtful that the regime will soon change its ways. If it fails to do so, it will hear more from Ebadi, whose reputation in the outside world has been enhanced by last week's storied award. --With reporting by Bruce Crumley/Paris
...Communist Party plenum in Beijing as a priority for action. The faster China grew, boosted by foreign investment and technology, the greater the wealth gap and the fault line in society. Then, as now, a pervasive internal security apparatus kept tabs on an evolving society. Chiang also sought a reform of personal conduct with his New Life movement, which tried to outlaw spitting, smoking and other bad behavior?just like the authorities last month decreeing a Public Morality...
...front-page cartoon in Corriere Della Sera, Italy's leading daily, said it all. A scrum of center-left opposition figures - communists, reformers, party chairmen, union bosses - hoisted a man named Gianfranco Fini on their shoulders and shouted: finalmente un leader! Finally - but Fini is no center-left leader. He's head of the right-wing, "post-fascist" National Alliance Party, and Deputy Prime Minister in Silvio Berlusconi's governing coalition. The opposition can't stand Berlusconi, but they were feting his right-hand man because Fini had suggested that immigrants "who live, work and pay taxes in Italy" should...
Democracy, Now? SAUDI ARABIA Police in Riyadh broke up an unprecedented demonstration calling for democratic reform, and arrested 154 participants. The protest followed the government's pledge to hold its first elections in 50 years, for half of the municipal council seats, within a year...