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...amounts to “blame the government and make promises to do better, without specifying how.” The media has a strange aversion to clear-cut ideological battles, usually condemning such partisan bickering, as if voters would rather have their expressed preferences diluted by compromise. In contrast, in the UK the opposition party forms a (theoretically) coherent set of policies that explicitly set out party-wide policy goals. Now, since I’ve come in full circle—from condemning the Tory right for its obsession with ideological martyrdom to lamenting the American system that...
...area-many thought to be at least 6,000 years old-depict fish, reptiles, kangaroos and birds, as well as human figures. According to experts, they show wide variation in style and technique, suggesting that they were created in different eras. The images are still visible, thanks to the contrast between the dark red-to-black patina of iron oxide that covers the rock and the underlying gray that emerged when the patina was cut into or scratched away...
...contrast with Israel's last major incursion into Lebanon couldn't be more stark. Back in 1982, when Israel launched a full-scale invasion of Lebanon to drive out the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) then controlling south Lebanon, the Israeli army smashed through the Palestinian lines and reached Beirut in just nine days. But after nearly a month of fighting Hizballah, Israeli troops have advanced only a few miles at the most into Lebanon. And despite saturation air coverage with reconnaissance drones, helicopters and jets as well as multiple air strikes and heavy artillery bombardments and -in the past...
...race is about to take a new turn now that the Republicans have picked their candidate. Corker, 53, was probably the G.O.P.'s strongest choice to run against Ford. The contrast in their life stories is striking: before entering politics, Corker built a real estate and construction fortune from a company he started with the $8,000 he had saved working as a construction superintendent. But his record as Chattanooga mayor also creates some potential vulnerabilities...
...China as well. The People's Republic's adoption of bourgeois values has, in recent years, led to a larger pet-owning population. What is notable, however, is the Chinese media's open coverage of these enormous culls, which opens government policy to the public's critical eye; in contrast, violations of human-as opposed to animal-rights are very rarely publicized by the mainstream Chinese media and very rarely open to public scrutiny. China is a country where advocacy for abused animals is more recognized and permissible than advocacy for abused humans. Part of why the dog killing...