Word: suspectibility
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...hope that real democracy could deliver a more responsible, more accountable and functional government. On most counts, they were disappointed. Six weeks on, the results are mired in widespread allegations of fraud mostly favoring the incumbent, President Hamid Karzai. On Monday, electoral authorities began a sample audit of suspect ballots in order to ascertain the extent of fraud and whether or not Karzai in fact earned the 50% plus one vote to forestall a runoff. The crisis of legitimacy has been a boon for Taliban propaganda, and the U.S. Administration is debating the value of sending more troops...
...elections for Afghanistan's 34 provincial councils, which have been all but overshadowed by the presidential race, have produced results that prove that Afghans not only wholeheartedly support the idea of democracy, but also that they are far more liberal and progressive than the rest of the world might suspect. Tarana, dressed in slim black trousers under a tight black coat accented with a flashy silver headscarf, compares herself with her bearded, conservative predecessors on the council. "Afghans are not like what you hear from other countries, that they are religious and strict," she says. "You can see that...
...about democratic values. Why else have Italians voted three times for a man who has sought to dismantle an independent judiciary and control the media? Why have Britons acquiesced in illiberalism to such an extent that local councils eavesdrop on the telephone calls and e mails of people they suspect of disposing of their garbage in the wrong place? Why do so many middle-class Indians either insulate themselves from the corruption of public and political life or, worse, participate in it? (See a TIME video on CCTV in Britain...
Western diplomats in Sana'a, however, suspect that the real culprits behind this year's attacks on foreigners come from the growing band of al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen. Under pressure in Saudi Arabia and Iraq, al-Qaeda is turning the lawless mountain areas of Yemen into a new staging area. U.S. officials and terrorism experts don't think Yemen is close to becoming a failed state like Somalia - just across the Red Sea. But there are warning signs that things could get worse: the Houthi rebellion, secessionists in the south, Somali pirates menacing the coast, an economy that...
...court has already considered a similar case in 1981's Edwards v. Arizona, in which the court found admissions made by a suspect without the presence of an attorney, which he had requested, inadmissible. But in Edwards, these admissions were made only a day after the suspect had been given his rights - not nearly three years later. The court will be asked to decide whether to treat their decision in Edwards as a so-called "bright-line" rule - that is, one that would create an absolute standard of police conduct in regard to the Miranda rights, regardless of how much...