Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono! Hard name to learn. So, let us call him SBY, as do his compatriots, especially the tens of millions who voted last week to make him the first directly elected president of
George W. Bush won the US presidency by a margin of only 537 votes. That was the extent of his victory in the complex and unsettling muddle that was the Florida count in 2000. Even die-hard Republicans
WASHINGTON, 29 September 2004 — While all eyes are focused on the race for the White House, it is important to note, as well, that 34 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate and all 435 seats
LONDON, 29 September 2004 — Human rights must not be abandoned in the “war on terror”. The British should take seriously the growing number of reports that anti-terrorist measures fall disproportionately
LONDON, 29 September 2004 — Tony Blair may have put his finger on the obstacle to freeing Ken Bigley from his captors in Iraq when he said: “There is no need in raising false hopes, because of the
LONDON, 29 September 2004 — We thought Donald Rumsfeld was in Iraq for as long as it took to see perfect democracy reign, until Baghdad was a Swiss-style model of purity for the Middle East. But now
