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...negotiations. (In the current round of talks, the U.S., South Korea, China, Japan and Russia join North Korea at the table.) In the presidential debates, Bush argued that for the U.S. to go one-on-one would squander Beijing's influence with Pyongyang. But analysts say China would be content to see bilateral talks between the U.S. and North Korea proceed alongside the six-party confab. All in all, China could hardly be happier at the state of its relationship with the U.S. "Powell's trip shows that the U.S. takes China seriously," says Chu Shulong, a political scientist...
...center of this debate is the issue of Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) type voting machines, much like those currently in use in Florida. Such systems typically do not produce simultaneous paper ballots, meaning that voters do not have the opportunity to physically confirm the content of their vote. And while the 2000 presidential election demonstrated the importance of voter-confirmation, the proposed solution for providing that feedback is more dangerous still: the widespread use of DREs that do not create a physical, human-readable ballot at the time of voting. And as long as the concurrent production of a human...
...Kynston from respected actor to glorified drag queen. Meanwhile, Maria realizes that under the harsh glare of the spotlight, she lacks any theatrical talent (if only Danes had reached the same conclusion prior to filming). She must reassure the enraged and borderline-suicidal Kynston who must now content himself with playing the bawdy drinking houses of working-class London where he is asked to “show us yer tits” with alarming frequency. Danes, in her characteristically doe-eyed manner, comforts him with the inexplicable (and not at all comforting) adage that he?...
...such balanced content will not be pleasing to the Cuban voters Bush so desperately inklings to in Florida. Fidel Castro and the Cuban government—the supposed targets of the State Department’s actions—will remain unscathed by the decision. Regardless of what one thinks about the longstanding U.S. trade embargo on Cuba, it is clear that the State Department’s censorship of viewpoints is damaging to Americans who are deprived of their first amendment right to the free exchange of information. As Coatsworth said, “The only people really disadvantaged...
...There are two standards for swimmability,” he said. “One is bacteria content, which the Mirant Kendall Station doesn’t affect much...