Second, both the new administration and Congress should create presidential commissions and Congressional oversight hearings on various subjects: detention and interrogation practices, extraordinary rendition, reform of military commissions and reform of surveillance practices.
Southern India in the early decades of India's independence was a place of extraordinary social reform and radical political experimentation.
If, as expected, a health care bill becomes law in the next month or so, the President and congressional Democrats will have accomplished something truly extraordinary: fundamental reform of the health care system.
As a result, there has been an extraordinary wave of reform aimed at increasing bureaucratic accountability at various levels of government The primary problems facing all these reform initiatives are: (i) How can accountability best be achieved in Europe?
The bargain is a terrible one for Kiev: It stipulates that Ukraine must adopt a constitutional reform granting extraordinary powers to the Russian-occupied regions, and that the reforms must satisfy Moscow's proxies.
As "politics as normal," or would they see these reforms as extraordinary efforts to entrench an incumbent in power?
At the moment, its prospects look poor.Besides, the extraordinary attention paid to reforms of the "international architecture" over the past five years has been out of proportion to its real importance.
You know, the extraordinary good times, welfare reform, crime is down.
The Senate's actions, which went beyond proposals put forward by President Bush, were taken in a series of unanimous votes this afternoon that reflect the extraordinary momentum that corporate reform legislation has gained in the wake of the recent scandals involving Enron, WorldCom and Tyco.
If the extraordinary favors of "tax reform" don't compel PE managers to become corporations, a turn in markets, or a changing of the guard might.
An initiative such as this would be of great help in defining a new regional order; one that would be less tense, provided that the Syrian regime becomes convinced that it would be better for it, and for Syria to focus exclusively on serious, extraordinary and quick domestic reform.
