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...answers to those questions are elusive. The literarily inclined might date the beginnings of the change all the way back to Sinclair Lewis and Main Street. The aging moviegoer might cite King's Row, wherein cheerful Ronald Reagan lost his legs to a sadistic doctor. Me, I'd probably pick something like Boys Don't Cry, for which Hillary Swank won her first Oscar playing out a transgender tragedy on the flat and (as the camera saw them) fallow plains of Nebraska...
...liken her experience to that of Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney. "I'm going to be interested in finding out what exactly she thinks makes her particularly well prepared, for example, on foreign policy," he told TIME on Wednesday. When her aides are asked, he notes, they cite, of all things, a speech, the one she gave on human rights in China in 1995. "Has she negotiated any treaties? When she traveled to these 80 countries, was she involved in policymaking? If so, what? My suspicion is that you're not going to get a bunch of particularly impressive answers...
...presidential debate on Tuesday night between the incumbent Socialist president of the government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and his Popular Party (PP) rival, Mariano Rajoy. As in any close race, there were plenty of violent accusations flying around; yet the Spanish leaders were not afraid to cite hard statistics and read past quotations to each others’ face. Instead of telling compelling stories about single mothers, displaced workers, and war veterans, they brought graphs of economic performance to the televised debate. And ratings did not waver...
...annually "on the current and future military strategy of the People's Republic of China." So on Monday, the Pentagon turned out a 66-page report to help Congress foster its own fears. It's part of a symbiotic relationship: Congress orders the study, and then lawmakers get to cite it as justification for buying more weapons. Some in national-security circles refer to the phenomenon as a "self-licking ice cream cone...
...unlike the old Soviet Union, the Pentagon can't quite cite a clear and present danger. So it's pointing to China's secretiveness as justification for assuming the worst. "The lack of transparency in China's military and security affairs poses risks to stability by increasing the potential for misunderstanding and miscalculation," the report said. "This situation will naturally lead to hedging against the unknown." The Pentagon adds that China spent up to $139 billion on its military, up to three times its declared budget (but only about a quarter of the Pentagon's). "The real story...