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AP - A lengthy Senate floor debate on the Iraq war is inevitable, despite a Republican effort to block it, Democrats say.

The failure of parliamentary democratic system in Indonesia in the nineteen fifties was due to the imperfect ideological foundation upon which the Indonesian elite based and understood it. To the cream of the crop, democracy was an ideal and an icon, which in practice must be kept firmly within their own hands.The parliamentary reform they

AP - Democratic presidential contenders are scrambling for support in what's being dubbed the Al Sharpton primary. The civil rights leader livened up the 2004 Democratic primary with his pompadour hairdo and sharp, witty oratory. This election, the high-profile Sharpton, fresh from the fight over Don Imus' derogatory remarks, is attracting all the party's major

Iraq's prime minister and president will introduce legislation as early as Tuesday to let former members of Saddam Hussein's ruling party