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...form the next coalition, signaling a return to the alliance that defined Dutch politics for more than a decade before Fortuyn. But that doesn't mean a return to business as usual. Fortuyn's legacy has moved Dutch politics to the right and, like his opponents, Bos advocates a tougher stance on immigrants and says those who fail to learn Dutch should have their welfare benefits cut. But unlike its opponents, Labor is prepared to make an extra €250 million available for integration courses. It is perhaps because of this that a recent survey concluded that 31% of ethnic...
...meeting with Iraqi leaders, where he will demand that Iraq answer specific questions on the gaps in its December declaration. So, even though Iraq appears to have passed the first hurdle, the UN weapons inspectors are clearly moving to raise the pressure on Baghdad by setting it tougher tests, restoring the premise that the onus is on Iraq to demonstrate through active cooperation that it has ended all prohibited weapons programs...
...Bush's economic and international policies. We noticed that it was Republican conservatives like Charles Krauthammer--not leading Democrats like Senate leader Tom Daschle--who offered unprompted condemnation of Lott's praise for Thurmond's Dixiecrat presidential campaign. Daschle initially accepted Lott's half-hearted apology, adopting a tougher stance only after an outcry from black politicians. His delayed reaction "was an example of the collegiality fostered by the good-ole-boy network in the Senate overcoming the ordinary sensitivities that these people should be expected to have," says Wade Henderson, head of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights...
...trend shows no sign of slowing. New York City's new schools chancellor, Joel Klein, unveiled last November a tougher disciplinary policy, the linchpin of which is "twilight schools" for disruptive students in each of the city's five boroughs. Klein also plans to increase the number of alternative facilities for the most serious offenders...
...seen pursued by any President in my adult life," fumed Kent Conrad of North Dakota, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee. Reckless or not, the plan is likely to move rapidly through the House of Representatives, where the Republicans are comfortably in control. The Senate will be tougher, since moderate Republicans also worry about the size of the cuts. The result is likely to be a scaled-back bill, finalized this summer. But that's how Bush is playing it: scaling back from $674 billion gives him plenty of room to maneuver...