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Feminist party threatens to unseat Swedish premier
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=627349
By Stephen Castle in Brussels
08 April 2005
Sweden, where almost half of all MPs are women, is on the verge of
striking a fresh blow for sexual equality as a newly formed feminist
alliance is now tipped to unseat the Prime Minister.
The Feminist Initiative, launched earlier this week, is already eating
into the support of the ruling Social Democrats and their Green and
Left Party coalition allies. And, of those backing the group launched
to fight for women's rights, more than one in three are men.
Sweden
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Score found in Vienna may be Mozart's work
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=627346
By Tony Paterson in Berlin
08 April 2005
The Musikverein concert house in Vienna said that it was investigating
a recently discovered 18th-century music score which archivists
believe could be an unknown symphony which was composed by Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart when he was a child.
The score was found by the Musikverein last autumn among a collection
of other 18th-century scripts it bought in Germany. It is dated 1770,
when Mozart would have been 13, and bears the title in Italian
"Symphony by Wolfgang Mozart", in the writing of a scribe.
Mozart
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DeLay Says Federal Judiciary Has 'Run Amok,' Adding Congress Is Partly
to Blame
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/08/politics/08judges.html
By CARL HULSE and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Representative Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, escalated his
talk of a battle between the legislative and judicial branches of
government.
Facing State Protests, U.S. Offers More Flexibility on School Rules
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/08/education/08child.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By SAM DILLON
The secretary of education sought to set a new, more cooperative tone
in her response to resistance to No Child Left Behind.
Administration Urges Appeals Court to Let Guantánamo War Crimes Trials
Resume
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/08/politics/08detain.html
By NEIL A. LEWIS
A federal judge had halted the trials, saying the military commissions
did not provide minimally fair procedures and violated international
law.
Why Hasn't a Weak Dollar Slowed Imports?
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/08/business/08imports.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By LOUIS UCHITELLE
The everyday needs and desires of Americans have kept imports rising
despite a weaker dollar.
Fleeing a Land Where God and the Beatles Are Banned
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/08/books/08book.html
By WENDY GIMBEL
Mirta Ojito, a reporter for The New York Times, writes about
coming-of-age in Cuba and her family's rescue in the Mariel boatlift
of 1980.
Bus and Bridge Reunite Kashmiris Long Kept Apart
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/08/international/asia/08kashmir.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By SOMINI SENGUPTA
The crossing had been closed since the partition of the subcontinent
in 1947, and the India-Pakistan war that accompanied it.
France Urged to Skip Official Papal Honors
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/08/international/worldspecial2/08france.html
By ELAINE SCIOLINO
While the death of Pope John Paul II has brought widespread mourning,
there has also been pressure on the secular French Republic not to
honor him officially.
Some Lebanese Villagers Won't Cheer as Syrians Leave
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/08/international/middleeast/08lebanon.html
By DEXTER FILKINS
In some villages of Mount Lebanon where many Syrians lived, there is
an element of ambivalence toward the occupying force.
U.S., China Agree To Regular Talks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35264-2005Apr7.html
Senior-Level Meetings to Focus on Politics, Security, Possibly
Economics
By Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 8, 2005; Page A14
President Bush has decided the United States and China should begin
holding regular senior-level talks on a range of political, security
and possibly economic issues, signifying both China's interest in the
prestige of such sessions and the administration's efforts to come to
grips with China's rising influence in Asia, senior administration
officials said.
Carter's Absence From Group Reignites Tensions With Bush
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35576-2005Apr7.html
By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 8, 2005; Page A16
He was the only president ever to host a pope at the White House when
John Paul II came to visit a quarter-century ago, and in many ways
Jimmy Carter had a powerful spiritual and philosophical affinity for
the Polish pontiff. But when the pope is buried at the Vatican this
morning, three living U.S. presidents will be in attendance and Carter
will not.
Cultivating new friends helps old ones flourish, too
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3846679
Apr 7th 2005 | WASHINGTON, DC
From The Economist print edition
A new approach in foreign policy is gradually winning even the
Europeans over
ANYONE determined to make the pursuit of freedom and democracy in
other people's countries the organising principle of their foreign
policy has to feel comfortable leading from the front. Far from being
chastened by the difficulties of winning the peace in Iraq, his first
term's biggest overseas adventure, George Bush has started his second
term bent on tackling tyranny worldwide. After a certain amount of
scoffing and some alarm (whose country would the neo-cons be trampling
across next?), the idea is catching on in surprising places.
Lula's tormentor
http://www.economist.com/world/la/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3843636
Apr 7th 2005 | SÃO PAULO
From The Economist print edition
Brazil's president is being undermined by an awkward ally
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HE HATES homosexuality, stores his money in cash and is now the chief
tormentor of Brazil's president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Severino
Cavalcanti, who in February defeated a government-backed candidate to
become president of Congress's lower house, foiled the government
again on March 31st by forcing it to withdraw a tax increase that
would have fallen mainly on professionals and farmers. Taxpayers
cheered the rough-hewn provincial from the poor north-eastern state of
Pernambuco; the government scrambled to persuade doubters that it was
still in control of Congress.
The shift away from thrift
http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3839554
Apr 7th 2005
From The Economist print edition
Across the rich world, people are saving less. Does that matter?
IT MAY be a virtue, but in much of the rich world thrift has become
unfashionable. Household saving rates in many OECD countries have
fallen sharply in recent years. Anglo-Saxon countries—America, Canada,
Britain, Australia and New Zealand—have the lowest rates of household
saving. Americans on average, save less than 1% of their after-tax
income today compared with 7% at the beginning of the 1990s. In
Australia and New Zealand personal saving rates are negative as people
borrow to consume more than they earn.
Not so dopey
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3839772
Apr 7th 2005
From The Economist print edition
The active ingredient of cannabis may protect against heart disease
and strokes
THERE is a certain cognitive dissonance associated with the word
"drug". On the one hand, it can mean "life-saving medicine". On the
other, it can signify "probably illegal and possibly life-threatening
recreation". Some substances fall into both categories. Heroin, for
instance, has legitimate medical uses (though it tends to be branded
as the more user-friendly "diamorphine" when administered in
hospitals). But for those drugs without established medical track
records, such as marijuana, there is a lot of resistance to the idea
that they might heal as well as harm.
Is Berlusconi's luck running out?
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3834194
Apr 6th 2005
From The Economist Global Agenda
Italy's prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has suffered crushing
defeats in regional elections, despite his tax cuts and a promise to
bring the country's troops home from Iraq. There is now a strong
chance that Mr Berlusconi's lot will lose a parliamentary election due
next year—assuming it does not fall apart in the meantime. If so,
America would lose another strong ally in Europe
You need us and we need you
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3834261
Apr 6th 2005
From The Economist Global Agenda
America and foreign central banks are locked in a codependent
relationship: America is addicted to spending, and the banks can't
stop throwing money at it in order to keep their currencies down. This
is unhealthy for both parties, say the IMF and the World Bank. But is
there any political will to change it?
Madness descending
Mar 31st 2005
From The Economist print edition
FREEDOM has its darker side. The fall of communism in eastern Europe
saw Yugoslavia disintegrate into warfare and atrocity. On the other
side of the world a decade later, when the aged tyrant Suharto was
driven from power by unarmed democratic protesters, the suffering of
Indonesia was only just beginning.
In the Time of Madness
By Richard Lloyd Parry
Jonathan Cape; 314 pages; £12.99
French hissing
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3809488
Mar 31st 2005
From The Economist print edition
IT IS not often that a book on Shakespeare takes you unawares. After
all, what is there possibly left to say that's new? John Pemble
shatters such complacency. Not only does he tell a fascinating story,
he tells it in crisp, coruscating prose. This isn't the latest
academic fad, but a gripping tale of a struggle for cultural hegemony.
Shakespeare Goes to Paris: How the Bard Conquered France
By John Pemble
Hambledon & London; 256 pages; $39.95 and £19.99
Hither thither
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3809573
Mar 31st 2005
From The Economist print edition
ONE midsummer evening in La Paz, Pico Iyer got lost in a moonlit
suburb only to discover, to his astonishment, that he had wandered
through the exact same nondescript streets two decades before. As a
metaphor, the story illuminates one of Mr Iyer's favourite conundrums:
the traveller seeks new experience in a world in which nothing is new,
where every gust of wind has been recycled. And yet it might also seem
slightly improbable.
Sun After Dark: Flights into the Foreign
By Pico Iyer
Knopf; 240 pages; $22.95.
Bloomsbury; £7.99
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