Word: reformist
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...jailed for 18 months for his ideas. But his scholarly perseverance has led to breakthroughs in one of the great intellectual quests of our anxious age: reconciling Islamic traditions and modern democracy. "Kadivar puts his finger on the burning issues for progressive Muslims," says Iranian reformist Mostafa Tajzadeh. "He has broken taboos which others were too afraid to even approach...
...first Papua New Guineans to attend university, he repaid the opportunity with 35 years of public service in which he fought tirelessly, if with limited success, to ensure that P.N.G.'s leaders served the people, not themselves. After a career as a rugby union captain, diplomat, reformist government minister and company director, Siaguru founded the P.N.G. chapter of Transparency International. From its helm and in his weekly newspaper column, he skewered high-placed crooks and urged his fellow citizens to demand fair play in business and politics. Two weeks before he died of cancer in Brisbane aged 57, he wrote...
...victorious Marseilles plaintiffs. "But it's virtually impossible if our entire day is spent trying to scrape enough together to simply survive." It often seems the government itself is in survival mode when it comes to controlling spending. Though Raffarin and his conservative partners swept into office on a reformist platform in 2002, they've become caught in the pincers of economic stagnation and growing public dissatisfaction. Efforts to nurture growth and job creation by cutting taxes and employee payroll charges and tightening pension schemes have done little more than further bloat France's budget deficit well beyond...
...been hapless at times, and his maverick efforts to root out corruption among politicians and businessmen have gained him plenty of enemies in the Establishment. The impeachment "is nothing less than a coup d'?tat," seethes Im Jong Seok, a member of the Uri Party, a group of reformist lawmakers loyal to Roh. "It's a wrecking of democracy." Many others share those sentiments. The day before the impeachment, a protester doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire in Seoul. The next morning, a man drove his SUV onto the stairs of the National Assembly building...
...would be easy to conclude that Roh's impeachment will kill off his presidency. But his reformist agenda and his direct approach to voters still carry wide popular appeal. Some observers say opposition lawmakers felt they had to impeach Roh to prevent Uri Party candidates from sweeping the upcoming election. "This was their final gamble," explains Cho Ki Suk, an expert on Korean politics at Ewha Womans University in Seoul. "What else could [opposition politicians] do?" Says Hahm Sung Deuk, professor of political economy at Korea University in Seoul: "The impeachment was a political game of chicken...