Word: barks
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...James Baker; Nixon had Kissinger. Obama's conservative critics poke fun at his overweening ego, but I suspect that the President's need to find an alter ego, an intellectual equal - in addition to the First Lady - who can challenge his decisions and demeanor (in private, with the bark off), is the biggest adjustment he has to make...
...fits the bill perfectly. In fact, the Plenum, the Party's biggest annual meeting at which major policy and personnel decisions are made, is being compared to the Sherlock Homes storyline in which the most significant clue is something that did not occur - the guard dog that didn't bark on the night of the murder. At the characteristically secretive Plenum, the equivalent clue into the mystery of who will be China's next leader was the fact that Xi Jinping, the man widely touted as the most likely successor to President Hu Jintao, was not appointed deputy chairman...
Others think that bark may be more a call to arms than an actual intention. "The news world treats Rupert as an oracle," says Ken Doctor, a news-industry analyst for Outsell. "He could be trying to be the pied piper." The New York Times, which in the past has experimented with charging for online content, is expected to make an announcement about a new fee model at the end of summer. In the days that followed Murdoch's announcement, the Financial Times, which charges for some content, and the Boston Globe dropped hints that they were looking into different...
...join Tinka and a group of other Masai on a drive out of the protected reserve into Masai communal grazing lands. The only sign that we've crossed over is a line of cow tracks. Zebra and topi antelope graze under acacia. Tinka points out branches stripped of bark. "They have been cleared by elephants," he says. A few more bends in the road and we've arrived at the Koiyaki Guide School, where Tinka is one of 26 students being trained for work in the reserve...
...even after over twenty years struggling for their rights, the Tatars retain a faith in a better, peaceful future. "Dogs bark, but the caravan goes on," says Osmanov, quoting an Arab proverb. "We'll get there, despite these problems. God sees everything and in the end he puts things in their rightful place...