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...biggest challenges are the individual mandate and costs," says Senator Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat who sits on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee, which is convening the meetings. Obama's budget also draws some battle lines on these issues: the White House, for instance, doesn't support an individual mandate as Kennedy and Baucus do. Then there's the question of whether the program can really be shoehorned into the $634 billion 10-year budget figure that Obama has proposed; some have estimated that it would take at minimum $1 trillion over 10 years. And while everyone...
...occasion. But in Thailand, you literally wear your politics on your sleeve. When the protesters from the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) stormed Bangkok's international airport last year, the air terminal turned bright yellow. The demonstrators chose shirts of that color because they wanted to show their support for the King, whom they alleged was being disrespected by the then government. (Those PAD rallies forced ASEAN to delay the original date of its summit in December, and reschedule to this week...
...stack of unused posters is but a symptom of the collapse of support for Fatah in Lebanon, home to the most politically active population of Palestinians outside the West Bank and Gaza. It was the movement's traditional support there that underscored Abbas' mandate, as chairman of the PLO, to negotiate on behalf of all Palestinians. But the failure of Abbas' negotiation strategy to deliver any meaningful change for the prospects of Lebanon's Palestinian refugees has led many - like their kin in the West Bank and Gaza - to transfer their support to Hamas and other radical Islamist groups...
...There are also some specific lessons from our experience. In many of the situations where you need to bring leaders to account, [you can apply the Sierra Leonean model of] a hybridized court, where you obtain local and international support to bring people to justice and call their bluff. The International Criminal Court is often told, "You are just prosecuting cases in Africa. You are biased against Africa." The answer, I think, is a hybrid model able to deliver the kind of cooperation that an international court sitting outside the region with an exclusively U.N. staff cannot...
...deep the army's power had extended under that government, which stepped down after the 2008 elections. But in order to fulfill any of her ambitious campaign promises - to stabilize the economy, quell jihadist activity and fight corruption, among others - the Prime Minister needs the cooperation, if not the support, of the army. And so her handling of this crisis will be a crucial test of her ability to balance the frustrations of Bangladeshis who are chafing under a powerful military with her own political imperative to maintain good relations with one of the country's largest, strongest and most...