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Just before her 90th birthday, retired executive secretary Doris Haddock took a 14-month walk across the country to agitate on behalf of campaign finance reform. Neither arthritis, nor emphysema, nor American apathy could stop the populist activism of the woman who came to be known as Granny D. Three years later, she’s as fiesty as ever, continuing her travels, this time to get out the working woman’s vote. After a recent stop at Harvard, she took some time to tell FM about the sexy Swing State Project, getting arrested on Capitol Hill...
...admit that I looked a little clueless at times, and I am known for eating chocolate. But before you dismiss me entirely, understand that I met with many newspapers along my path, many of whom thereafter changed their tune to support the passage of campaign finance reform. Also, in the last miles, several thousand people were walking with me into Washington, including several dozen members of Congress, and we had lots of “Good Morning America” and NPR stories to raise the profile of the reform bill as it hit Congress. Gump had none of that...
...touchy curriculum: law and democracy. During a 90-minute talk, the professors discussed such sensitive notions as how "the power to rule derives from the constitution and from law," says a source who attended the meeting. Hu closed the session with his firmest comment to date on political reform: "The party must enrich forms of democracy, perfect democratic procedures, expand citizens' orderly political participation and ensure the people have democratic elections...
...countryside, some officials are already holding public hearings and various kinds of local elections. Hu's speech, says Wang Changjiang, a professor at the Central Party School, the leadership's top training academy, "suggests the party center is also steadily recognizing that it needs to supply more" political reform. "If it doesn't," Wang says, "it can create even bigger problems...
...Ziyang arranged similar briefings for his staffers?until he was purged in 1989?but kept them secret to avoid criticism. In contrast, a story on Hu's "study session" hit the front page of the People's Daily, the party's mouthpiece. Hu wants extra points for addressing political reform?but hasn't aced the class...