Word: asked
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...scene and led them in chants against Kadeer. But while she makes a good target, Kadeer's significance to the average Uighur is limited. "They talk about Rebiya, but what does she have to do with this? She is so far away," says the young man near the mosque. "Ask the people and they will tell you the real reason. It is what happened in Guangdong...
...Could there be a less likely venue in which to ask a woman in a blue T-shirt - "Go Slam a Salmon," it reads - about her plans to run for President? And yet this was the place where her answer finally made sense. It included none of the strange ramblings of her televised resignation speech, which managed, in pure Palin style, to be both plainspoken and inscrutable. For example: "Take the words of General MacArthur. He said, 'We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.' " And "Do you want me to make a positive difference and fight...
...continues. The cap-and-trade energy plan "is going to drive the cost of consumer goods and the cost of energy so extremely high." Democratic health-care proposals, she says, look increasingly like the ideas that McCain proposed during the campaign. "One thing reporters aren't asking the Administration is - it's such a simple question, and people around here in the real world, outside of Washington, D.C., want reporters to ask - President Obama, how are you going to pay for this one- or two- or three-trillion-dollar health-care plan? How are you going...
...however, the country can take pride in the fact that its democracy is coming of age during a time of significant geopolitical turmoil, particularly in the Islamic world. "The election wasn't that exciting," says one Indonesian businessman. "But they were peaceful and legitimate. What more could you ask for?" Indeed, with the President winning in all but three provinces, it looks like most of the country is ready to follow him in a bold, new direction...
...achieve control, the population is going to feel a lot better. On the other hand, if you come in and you destroy buildings, homes, you may take the ground, but the population is left impoverished - they may have suffered casualties among their civilians - and then to turn and ask for their support, it will be different. So what we really want is the equivalent of a peaceful takeover, where the Taliban are forced...