Democracy on the March?
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A baby step towards popular suffrage sees conservative Islamists trounce liberal reformers
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A blog reader and longtime Giants fan sent us this dispatch from Tuesday's parade: By Dan Bruskewicz Is there a more antiquated idea of civic pride then a freaking parade? I mean, who does this anymore? What kind of modern American city has the time and space to shut down major blocks and forfeit innumerable civil servants [...].
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The core of democracy is tolerance of other people's views. Whether it is Rosa Luxemburg's call for respecting the "freedom of people who think differently" or Winston Churchill's pride in British parliamentary ...
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democracy. Critics say it is a travesty of free choice in a country where thousands of dissidents are in jail and human rights abuses are said to.
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The difference between democracy in Ukraine and in Iraq is that Ukrainians are demanding democracy by flooding the streets and setting up a tent city in the middle of Kiev.
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&quot;This is a great day for democracy. This has always been about voters. A real victory for the little guy in the state.&quot; - Paul Berendt, state Democratic Party chairman.
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Chanting &quot;democracy, democracy,&quot; 10,000  monks marched through the heart of Myanmar&#39;s main city on  Tuesday in defiance of a threat by the ruling generals to send  in troops to end the biggest anti-junta protests in 20 years.
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Mitt Romney never marched through Detroit with Martin Luther King, as the Romney campaign now acknowledges. Nor is it true that the GOP candidate "saw" his father, a former governor of Michigan, join King on a subsequent civil rights march, as he has been claiming on the presidential campaign trail....
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bringing democracy, a week after ousting a fellow general credited with setting in motion a roadmap for change. prepare a new constitution, which is supposed to return the former Burma to
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Protesters across the UK march to highlight the Kyoto Protocol, the international agreement on emissions.
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By Channel NewsAsia&#39;s Hong Kong Correspondent Roland Lim. HONG KONG : Hong Kong&#39;s democrats have vowed to continue to push for Beijing to grant universal suffrage to the territory, despite their disappointing showing in Sunday&#39;s local elections.
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European Commission is due to report whether Ankara has met the democracy and human rights criteria to start entry negotiations. &quot;It is however the case that if this proposal .
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"Despots Masquerading as Democrats": "It is a sign of hope that even dictators have come to believe that the route to legitimacy runs by way of democratic credentials."  By failing to demand that offenders honor their citizens' civil and political rights and other requirements of true democracy, Western democracies risk undermining human rights everywhere, the international ... via Kansas.com
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A baby step towards democracy, but liberal reformers lose
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Lose the brainy Washington-speak. Expand the playing field to states President Bush captured. Baby-sit for moms who want to get involved in politics. Democratic activists, gathering for the first time after last month's election losses, offered plenty of ideas for how the party can get back to its winning ways.
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Upcoming elections in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and the Palestinian Authority are initial steps on still rocky paths to democracy.
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We should recognize music when we hear it. Standing next to Ariel Sharon in Jerusalem this week, Tony Blair said: &quot;Viability cannot just be about territory, it also has to be about proper democratic institutions