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...months have been worse than ever, but President Morales says that, regardless of the reason, dangerous times call for drastic measures. Drivers claim the measure is authoritarian, but Morales has tried to show that no one will receive favoritism. Last month, soon after the government announced its zero tolerance rule, Morales' own party's candidate for Governor of La Paz in the upcoming elections was caught swerving down the city's streets at 3 a.m. The President showed no mercy. The candidate was not only forced to resign, but also was punished under the "community justice" regimen of his indigenous...
...problem in using reconciliation is twofold: 1) it's open to amendments and many Republicans Senators, including Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, say they plan on filing hundreds of amendments, potentially gumming up the Senate for months; and 2) under a provision known as the Byrd rule - named after Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia - every provision passed through reconciliation must be deemed relevant to the underlying budget by the parliamentarian...
...years past, Byrd rule meetings have lasted weeks and even months. Negotiators, usually the parliamentarian and the secretaries of both parties, Lula Davis for the Democrats and Dave Schiappa for the Republicans, sit cloistered in the parliamentarian's tiny office off the Senate floor in sessions that have come to be called Byrd baths. The provisions and amendments they rule nongermane have likewise come to be called Byrd droppings. (See pictures of the health care debate...
...best solution, says Samina Ahmed, Pakistan director for the International Crisis Group, a global policy-research center, is to ring in political and social reforms that will rid this territory of its antique system from British colonial rule and draw it into mainstream Pakistani life. For now, bringing back the music in the bazaars may not be enough, but it's a start...
...they could pocket the difference. Wilson's abduction occurred at a time when foreign journalists and adventurous travelers were returning to Cambodia to witness the country's Wild West atmosphere. The nation had just returned to being a nominally self-governed democracy following years of civil war, brutal communist rule and foreign occupation. But large swaths of the country were still held by the ousted Khmer Rouge communists. Eight foreigners had been kidnapped in the four months before the abduction of Wilson and his friends. (See pictures of the rise and fall of the Khmer Rouge...