The Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) has called for the termination of Hill & Knowlton [3]'s contract defending the repressive government [4] of the Maldives. The MDP calculated that the PR firm has been paid $800,000 over almost three years. "According to World Bank figures, $800,000 is enough money to pay for the salaries of 290 Maldivian secondary school teachers for a whole year," acting MDP President Ibrahim Hussain Zaki stated in a media release. In response to recent media coverage of Hill & Knowlton's role in the Maldives, Tim Fallon [5] posted a note on his blog defending [6] his work as leading to "seismic" changes in the Islamic nation. Dozens of visitors to the blog aren't buying his story. "Why on earth would you help a brutal dictator who has murdered his own people? This shows what kind of a company Hill & Knowlton really is," wrote one.