Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opposition of government vote rigging. But that may not be necessary: The president will be appointed by a parliament composed of the 462 legislators elected Monday, together with 38 appointed by the military and 200 nominated by the present military-backed government. Add to that an opposition fractured between secular and Muslim parties, and it?s likely that despite the democratic breakthrough, the country?s next president will be decided in a series of backroom deals...
...dictatorship ?- is expected to fare poorly at the polls, although the parliamentary system is stacked in its favor. The leading opposition contender ? way ahead in the small number of ballots counted ? is Megawati Sukarnoputri, the democracy-activist daughter of President Sukarno, who was overthrown by Suharto in 1965. Her secular Indonesian Democratic Party for Struggle has a loose coalition agreement with the Islamic-oriented National Mandate and National Awakening parties. Even if the opposition coalition manages to secure enough seats to outvote Golkar and the government-military nominees, they?re fiercely divided among themselves over whom to elect as president...
...stands at a crossroads. The peace process with the Palestinians is at a stalemate. Israel's conflict in south Lebanon with the Syrian backed, Iranian-funded Hizbullah has reached a pitched crescendo. Internally, the economy is in the midst of a slippery slide, while fault-lines between religious and secular, Ashkenazi and Sephardi (Jews of European origin vs. Jews of mid-Eastern origin), political left and political right, are tremoring towards earthquake. The new prime minister will be charged with arbitrating these complex, seemingly intractable problems...
America decided 200 years ago to keep her church and state separate, out of respect for both. But Columbine confounds the Constitution; everyone is coloring outside the lines, between what is sacred, what is secular. Ministers call on lawmakers to pass gun-control laws, lawmakers call for religious revival, and Al Gore appears on Larry King Live, not just to talk about his three-point plan to make the Internet less toxic but also to recall his days as a divinity student and cite parables and argue that Littleton is "a spiritual signal," a chance to ask questions that aren...
...author whose novels have consistently irked authority figures both religious and secular, Rushdie made no exception on Monday, selecting an excerpt that satirized corruption in the Indian government...