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...between between those who play sports and those who do not. Title IX, part of a 1972 federal law that mandates equal treatment of male and female athletes, has done much to provide athletes with equal resources. But still there lingers a persistent and intangible biased distribution of social clout between high profile male athletes and lower profile male and female athletes...
...Clinton, 58, has earned respect from both parties. Assigned to the Armed Services Committee, she has mastered issues like how to retain Guard and Reserve troops, pushed through legislation educating military families on insurance scams and funded measures to help supply flu vaccine. She has also leveraged her national clout to spotlight important terrorism issues with narrow followings--like the vulnerability of nuclear plants...
...longtime U.S. ally like South Korea is cozying up to China. Moreover, China's appetite for raw materials (and India's hunger in the future) is shifting political power from industrialized countries to resource-rich ones, giving leaders like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hugo Ch?vez and Vladimir Putin extra clout...
...public in the U.S. and say, 'We like you very much and we will stick to peaceful development,'" says Jin Canrong, a professor of international relations at Beijing's Renmin University. Jin thinks Hu will not only try to allay U.S. unease over China's rising diplomatic and military clout, but will seek to calm concerns over America's ballooning trade deficit with China, which topped $200 billion in 2005. Ideally, Hu would also like to hear a reaffirmation from Bush that Washington rejects any moves by Taiwan's maverick President Chen Shui-bian toward a declaration of independence from...
Some have said that Opus' true secret is its clout in international politics. Poland's new conservative regime includes an Opus minister and several Opus officials, according to one of the group's Warsaw directors; membership there is rumored to be a political stepping-stone. In Peru, Juan Luis Cardinal Cipriani, the church's first openly Opus Dei Cardinal, was seen as having sanctioned antiterrorist excesses by the regime of former President Alberto Fujimori; he scoffed at the accusations, writing that most human-rights groups were "fronts for Marxist and Maoist political movements...