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...have introduced economic and democratic reforms based on those that Western Europe took the better part of 60 years to absorb. The country is still plagued by double-digit unemployment (2 million Poles now work abroad), crumbling roads and endemic corruption. Poland scored low in the ranks of European Union countries - and tied with Cuba and Tunisia - in the latest global "corruption-perception index" compiled by the watchdog Transparency International. Public trust in Poland is also among the lowest in Europe, according to a recent Danish study...
...left. As young Justice Department lawyers in the early days of Ronald Reagan, Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito played on the same volleyball team, and both men were quickly marked for big things and nurtured for the bench. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's cocoon was the American Civil Liberties Union. Stephen Breyer's inculcation came on Senator Edward Kennedy's Judiciary Committee staff...
Rebel troops stampeded an african Union base in Darfur, Sudan, last month, murdering 10 African peacekeepers. That same week in Burma, the military regime killed a Japanese photographer and turned its machine guns on unarmed, barefoot monks. The violence in Darfur and Burma met with widespread international condemnation but scant concrete action. The perpetrators will almost certainly get away with murder...
...addition to the considerable political risk in partnering with a charter member of the "axis of evil," there's the North's underwhelming track record when it comes to development schemes. Casting about for new investors after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the D.P.R.K. in the 1990s started a free-trade zone in Rajin-Sonbong, a remote area near the country's northeastern frontier. The experiment failed: the zone didn't attract much beyond a few hotels and a casino catering to Chinese tourists. Another special economic zone in Sinuiju, across the Yalu River from the Chinese city...
...Within hours of those comments, Patrick Devedjian, general secretary of Sarkozy's ruling Union for a Popular Movement party called on Amara to cease "insulting majority legislators" - people, he noted with pointed contrast, who "are the ones who support the government...