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...achievements, the country has also seemed like a political experiment designed to find out just how much corruption a modern nation can withstand before it ceases to function. "We are hurtling toward disaster," warns Qazi Faruque Ahmed, president of Proshika, a prominent Bangladeshi ngo that runs schools and voter-education programs...
...mind that President Jacques Chirac plucked Jean-Louis Borloo, who turns 53 this week, from a junior minister post to head a new "superministry" for employment, labor and social cohesion in a revamped government. Chirac is hoping the wild-haired, straight-talking populist will serve as a bulwark against voter anger over Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin's belt tightening, and his failure to generate jobs or mend the social fracture between the country's affluent classes and its disgruntled masses. Voters put the opposition Socialists in charge of 20 of France's 21 mainland regions, up from...
...Mattei is dogged by his slow response to the heat wave that caused 15,000 deaths last August, and gaffe-prone Ecology and Sustainable Development Minister Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin is also ripe for sacking. All of which may be too little, too late. While the ump repeatedly urged voters not to confuse regional campaigning with a referendum on reform, 42% of first-round voters said their ballots were cast in anger at the government. That hurt ump candidates with close governmental ties and earned Raffarin a personal rebuke: voters in his conservative-controlled home region of Poitou-Charentes massively backed...
...MoveOn.org Voter Fund, according to its website, runs advertisements that are critical of the Bush administration, seeking to expose “President Bush’s failed policies in key ‘battleground’ states...
This $1 million fundraising campaign—sponsored by ClickBackAmerica.org and MoveOn.org Voter Fund—is called the “Race to a Million College Click Drive.” This joint effort promises to award the highest-ranked school with public recognition from a yet-to-be-determined celebrity guest, according to Lloyd...