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...Republicans will have to deal with the reality that the bill did not represent "Armageddon," as their overwrought House leader, John Boehner, claimed - that, in fact, it won't have much short-term impact at all and that in the long term, the impact is more likely to be benign than tragic...
Arlen Specter has always been a survivor. The Pennsylvania Senator has endured two bouts of Hodgkin's lymphoma and the chemotherapy that goes with it, a couple of procedures for a recurrent benign brain tumor, and heart-bypass surgery that sent him into cardiac arrest. And in a political career that has spanned 45 years, he has regularly sidestepped doom. Specter's most celebrated swerve came last April, when he switched parties to avoid a Republican primary against a conservative challenger he had barely beaten in 2004. He acknowledged he could never win the GOP nomination for a sixth term...
China’s defiance in the face of Google’s threats and Secretary Clinton’s remarks stems from similar sentiments. While the end goal of China’s censorship is probably not as benign as protecting children from molesters and the like, it does serve a purpose within the larger context of effective governing and elevating the quality of life for its massive population. This is no different from United States’ justification of torture in the grander scheme of the “war on terror”. As such, these censorship...
That argument begins to break down when you have aspirations to help fix the world. Over the past decade or so, many Europeans have liked to think of the E.U. as a counterweight to Washington and now Beijing: a big, rich, but more benign global power. Ask Catherine Ashton to define Europe's ideals, and her aspirations are far from modest: "Democracy. Human rights," she says. "Wanting to see stable, secure nations, with whom we enjoy political dialogue and economic relationships...
According to the researchers, doctors cannot accurately predict if a patient’s tumor will remain benign or spread to other tissues...