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...Georgia goes to the polls to decide a seat that could inch Democrats closer to a 60-seat, filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. The prospect of such a legislative advantage has the Republican incumbent in this red-leaning state billing himself as as the final "firewall" against the agenda of Barack Obama...
...realize they can't control the spread of the news," says David Bandurski, a researcher at the University of Hong Kong's China Media Project. Bandurski says the Chongqing case was a textbook example of the new policy, which he calls "Control 2.0." The government attempts to set the agenda on controversial issues by allowing initial reporting by the likes of Xinhua. At the same time, Beijing bars reporters from the increasingly popular so-called "city papers," which are commercially oriented, tabloid offshoots of hard-line Party papers, such as the People's Daily. These newer papers have to attract...
Obama Victory The new agenda facing Obama couldn't have been better summed up than by Michael Grunwald's five crucial steps [Nov. 17]. Obama's victory has the hallmarks of a landslide, even though, with 52% of the popular vote and a turnout of 64%, less than a third of the U.S. population actually voted for him. But this is still much more than most previous Presidents could claim, and with majorities in Congress and the Senate, there will be no excuse for not having the back-up for even the most daring new legislation. But a word...
...part of this government's agenda.' ROBERT MCCLELLAND, Australia's Attorney General, on whether the government plans to legalize same-sex marriage after extending equal health-care and taxation rights to homosexual couples...
...story of Guantanamo doesn't end with closure of the facility. What would be next on your agenda if that happened? Making sure we don't warehouse most of the prisoners in some other facility in this country and forget about them. Give these men hearings and we all abide by the result or let them go home...