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...panic-stricken behavior makes perfect sense in light of the nation's recent history. Of all of the amazing growth stories in Asia's economic miracle, South Korea's is probably the most miraculous. In a mere generation, the country transformed itself from an impoverished backwater living on American aid to a globally competitive manufacturer of microchips, cars and flat-screen TVs. Any setback to that progress is taken with grave seriousness. During the 1997 crisis, office workers, too ashamed to tell their families they had lost their jobs, donned business suits each morning only to hide...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is not the sort to let a grim outlook undermine his trademark determination. So despite the chorus of warnings against expecting conclusive results from this Saturday's G-20 summit in Washington on the world's crisis-stricken financial system, Sarkozy says he'll accept nothing short of tangible progress toward "moralizing finance markets...
...deluge of more than a million new registered voters since 2004, and almost half of them have come in 2008 alone, leading many to wonder if the database has been able to keep up. And Florida's spiking home foreclosures spell the risk of thousands being stricken from the rolls simply because their new address (or lack of one) suddenly doesn't match what's on file. Voters removed from the rolls get a provisional ballot that county elections supervisors are supposed to verify later; but in 2004, Florida ended up counting only 36% of the provisional ballots cast...
...primary season, both campaigns have organized conspicuous voter registration drives to draw people to the voting booths on Nov. 4. But for all the attention that swelling voter rolls have attracted, a disturbing trend in the opposite direction has emerged. Thousands of names across the country have been stricken from voter registration records in a number of locales, some in key swing states. While voter registration rolls must be kept up-to-date and accurate, consistent standards among states and transparency of the “voter purging” process will ensure freer and fairer elections in the future...
...made battling the Somali pirates a major priority of its forces in the region. (France maintains a permanent military base in nearby Djibouti.) The French and NATO vessels will patrol the waters off Somalia under a U.N. mandate to escort commercial ships and those carrying humanitarian supplies to drought-stricken areas, and to scour the area for pirates before they strike. Last April, French forces had stormed the luxury cruiser Le Ponant to rescue 30 vacationers and crew members taken hostage by Somali pirates. Six of those pirates, plus six others captured after another French hostage intervention, now await trial...