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...These days, Yang has become part of Australia's artistic mainstream himself, witnessing along the way an evolution in the country's attitude toward its minorities, particularly gays and Asians. He also notices more tolerance and diversity. "It's a slow process," he says. "There's always some resistance to change, but if the new attitudes hang around for long enough, then people start to accept them...
...next step, both sides must take a leap of faith. It's great that Beijing and Ma get along, but Ma won't be around forever, perhaps not even for long - he has taken a hit at home over the hurting economy and, more recently, over his government's less-than-stellar Morakot relief efforts. While Beijing has a big stake in Ma's political survival, it should start looking beyond the current President and the KMT and build bridges certainly to moderate DPP politicians. After all, the party could come back to power. As for those in Taiwan...
...shortfall. With a lot of help from the late-1990s tech boom, it succeeded. As already noted, this deficit-fighting consensus disintegrated in the early Bush years. This time around, China joined Japan as a big buyer of Treasuries, interest rates stayed low, and the economy chugged along...
...pages of his books and along the campaign trail, the president wasn’t shy about saying America is losing something that used to be omnipresent: A sense of mutual responsibility tied to sense of respect for those with a different view of what that mutual responsibility entails...
...regulatory policies, on issues ranging from financial services to environmental policy. “I feel honored, grateful, and humbled to be able to serve the country,” Sunstein wrote in an e-mailed statement to The Crimson on Saturday. The 57-40 Senate vote fell predictably along partisan lines, with all but five Democrats who were present for the vote and only four Republicans voting in favor of his nomination. Conservatives aired concerns about Sunstein’s public statements as an academic, particularly his comments in favor of granting some legal rights to animals...