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Rarely has politics made stranger bedfellows than the allies who came together in Serbia last week. Vojislav Kostunica - leader of Serbia's largest centrist party and the man who defeated Slobodan Milosevic in 2000 to become the last President of Yugoslavia - struck a deal with Milosevic's own Socialist Party (SPS) to secure the position of Serbian Prime Minister. Milosevic himself, on trial in the Hague for war crimes, will have no influence on government policy, but what many regard as an unholy alliance is prompting fears that Serbia is lapsing into its bad old nationalistic habits. Kostunica's Democratic...
...first focus would be on greater participation, greater decentralization, greater transparency. Secondly, we need to modernize our entire social-welfare system. Thirdly, my major priority is to make Greece a knowledge society. This means a huge transformation of our educational system. YOU BEGAN YOUR CAMPAIGN BY APOLOGIZING FOR THE SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT'S RECENT MISTAKES. WHY? I'm very proud of what the government has done. We focused on becoming part of the euro, developing infrastructure, strengthening the economy. However, there were other priorities that we did not address with the same vigor. What I'm saying...
Global transformers this spring include, according to Palmer’s description, “renowned historian Howard Zinn,” who is mostly renowned for his socialist screed A People’s History of the United States. MIT professor Noam Chomsky, euphemistically described by Palmer as a “social critic,” compared President Bush’s counter-terrorism efforts to Nazism. Among other idealist guests is “Alfie Kohn, the nation’s leading critic of ‘standardized testing as ethnic cleansing...
...blond projected a knowing pessimism in Bergman's Wild Strawberries and The Magician, desperate longing in Winter Light and The Silence, and a mutilating self-hatred in Cries and Whispers. Though her one Hollywood film, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, was a flop, she shone as a soulful socialist in Alain Resnais's La Guerre Est Finie and as a Nazi-era matriarch in Luchino Visconti's The Damned...
Election Gamble GREECE Socialist Prime Minister Costas Simitis announced his plans to stand down as leader of the ruling PASOK party in favor of popular Foreign Minister George Papandreou, to boost the party's fortunes ahead of early elections in March. Papandreou has an uphill task; the conservative New Democracy Party is well ahead in opinion polls...