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...from the national calendar to fund programs for the elderly provoked hardly a whimper of protest. But his method of quietly forcing change leaves many longing for a clearer sense of direction. "He manages and manages and manages, but he doesn't inspire!" moans Bernard Kouchner, the flamboyant former Socialist Minister of Health. That complaint doesn't just come from the usual suspects, either. "There's no overarching unity, no clarity, no sense that it's all part of a single effort with a final goal and reason," says Jacques Bille, a communications expert and former adviser to conservative Prime...
...majority in the National Assembly, handed Raffarin "an extraordinary possibility to make enormous changes," Baverez argues. But he thinks that opportunity has been wasted out of political cowardice. This government, he writes, is "betraying the reforming mandate given by the voters in April 2002." Malek Boutih, an outspoken Socialist Party official, says the government's mandate wasn't so much for reform as for stopping Le Pen. But that doesn't mean it can afford to spin its wheels. "If this government sits and waits things out," he says, "it risks exhausting public patience, and finally convincing...
...Stalin's was conducted by a totalitarian state and used to promote a single product - communist ideology." The show's 200 paintings, posters and films trace the development of Soviet "agit-art," from its inception in 1918 among the painters of the Russian avant-garde to the heyday of Socialist Realism in the 1930s and 1940s. One reason it became so effective was that, especially in the early years, it was artist-driven. There was oversight and censorship by apparatchiks, of course, but it was the artists - impassioned by the Bolshevik Revolution, holding high office themselves, and exploring...
...Kedia and Sthankey can thank an increasingly liberalized Indian economy for their more affluent lifestyle. For the first four decades after India gained independence from Britain in 1947, its socialist-leaning leadership, fearful of domination by foreigners, walled off its economy from global markets, using high tariffs and stiff entry barriers. An ideology favoring small cottage industries, fostered by no less a figure than Mohandas Gandhi, led the government to tie up private enterprise in a web of regulations, nicknamed the License Raj, that shifted economic power to inept bureaucrats. Foreign companies pushing their way in often found that only...
...been sentenced to death by beheading, were granted royal clemency. Saudi officials had claimed the men were involved in illegal alcohol trading that was related to the attacks. Five of the men had made televised confessions, which they later retracted, saying they had been tortured. Honeymoon's Over BRAZIL Socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's public support waned as the Brazilian government's lower house passed part of a pension-reform bill,which raises the retirement age, caps civil servants' pensions and puts an 11% tax on pensions over $400 per month. Some 40,000 civil...