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...this has aroused Lebedev's reformist zeal. More than ever, he says, Russia needs an independent judiciary and legislature, a free press, real elections, real political parties. The oligarchs, he says, understand that the system cannot survive forever. They are scared and looking for handouts. (At the top of the list is Oleg Deripaska, head of investment firm Basic Element, which has interests in the aluminum, energy and financial-services sectors among others, and recently received a $4.5-billion infusion from the state.) "Once they found themselves in trouble they started this sort of SOS signal, calling on Putin...
...government's zeal to get people to stub out their cigarettes is not without historical precedent. Shortly after tobacco was introduced to the Ottoman Empire in 1601, Sultan Murat IV banned the use and sale of tobacco - on penalty of death - after clerical decree. That ban, however, was repealed a little over a decade later, and smoking quickly became a status symbol, "one of four cushions of pleasure," according to one historian...
...winds of political change blowing elsewhere, Japan's story was of economic turmoil. Even now we can't recover our economy from what it was in 1989. Since the bubble, Japanese affairs have been dominated by the economy only, and our society has been wholly shaped by the zeal to work and work and make more money. The article about the bubble bursting in 1989 reminds me that we have lost not only our financial vigor, but a larger sense of moral purpose in the country. Yasuhito Sakamoto, Kanagawa, Japan...
That such dramatic developments in two such sensitive cases should come now is probably no coincidence. Call them Exhibits A and B in the case to protect France's legal system from President Nicolas Sarkozy's reformist zeal. Sarkozy wants to do away with the post of independent investigating judge - a key feature of France's legal system - and place control of criminal inquiries in the hands of politically appointed state prosecutors. Citing a small number of high-profile instances in which judges have overstepped their investigative and detention powers, Sarkozy says he wants to reform France's inquisitorial justice...
...very limited and clumsy to use; there are only a dozen applications available at launch, and your IT guys can't remotely wipe it if it's lost. Still, I complained bitterly about the same things with the first iPhone in 2007, and now I embrace it with the zeal of a convert. Could that happen with Pre? Maybe...