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...triple-no policy: no approval, no disapproval, no promotion. That sort of "Don't ask, don't tell" system is emblematic of the regime's delicate handling of many personal-liberties issues raised by the country's growing middle class. For their part, China's gays seem content to live within the government boundaries, albeit not without the occasional snipe at the authorities. Young gay men, for example, have co-opted a venerated communist term?tongzhi, or comrade?when referring to one another...
...Hsia blames the ruthless dealers: "They push men to buy a product and even teach them how to control their wives". Ads with lines like "Vietnamese Wife for $6,000," "Guaranteed Virgin" and "Refund for Runaways" were rampant before the government regulated content. Even then, more recent ads promised: "Vietnamese make ideal wives: pretty, tidy housekeepers, obedient...
...Thompson's credit, that proposal and his detailed plans to overhaul Medicare and Medicaid, streamline government, expand free trade and reform the tax code were all meatier than anything his rivals bothered to produce. But Thompson was content to roll out his policies like basketballs and let other people pick them up and play with them. As TIME's Joe Klein wrote, Thompson seemed to be campaigning from a hammock, and his lack of urgency made him an easy target for late night hosts and Saturday Night Live skits...
...That Republicans are even talking about the economy's woes at all is a relatively new development. As recently as October, in their debate in Dearborn, Mich., the candidates were content to point to positive job-growth numbers and downplay any problems as being the effect of local conditions that could be solved with the standard-issue G.O.P. economic prescriptions of tax cuts and less regulation...
...Paulino Cubero, the unemployed 52-year-old who won the content, had said he wrote the words "for the nation of average people who take the subway to work and pay their mortgages." But even subway riders and mortgage payers, it seems, are critics. Announcing the recall, Spanish Olympic Committee president Alejandro Blanco explained that "the lyrics just didn't have broad support among Spanish society." A disappointed Cubero was more pointed. "These are the miseries of our nation," he said. "We can only talk about different nations, not a shared...