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...eliminated, pared down or available exclusively online. At the time, I adamantly defended the placards as tools necessary for informed culinary decisions. But blissfully eating my tapas, I wasn’t sure I could continue to justify my position—hence the hypocrisy. If eating calorie count-free, food consciousness-free in Barcelona for a week was so beautiful, so relaxing and so satisfying, how could I still be so against taking away the food fact counts in the dining hall?The opponents to placards take a qualitative approach to food that works beautifully in Barcelona. The nutrition...
...about 100 votes. However, Obama campaign manager Plouffe insisted in an election-night conference call with reporters that his team had whittled her lead among these party insiders to about 55. But these two campaigns should know by now: this is one year when it's dangerous to count on anything...
...With a comfortable lead in the delegate count, McCain is now less concerned with the other candidates than the talk-radio hosts, evangelical preachers, war bloggers, party activists and corporate financiers who are needed to fire up Republican voters. They're still divided and disgruntled. Limbaugh has warned that nominating McCain or Huckabee would destroy the party, and while Romney has emphasized his appeal to neocons, theocons and econocons - the Reaganite three-legged stool - YouTube has made him look like a flip-flopping pseudocon. The conservative direct-mail activist Richard Viguerie has called for a new candidate to unify...
...That hints at a damaging internecine fight ahead, one that could doom the party's hopes of holding on to the White House. But Democrats can't count on a conservative crackup. It may be tempting to view the Republican race as a battle for the party's conservative identity, pitting antiabortion vs. antiterrorism vs. antitax, Huckabee the evangelical pastor vs. McCain the war hero vs. Romney the venture capitalist. But Super Tuesday's exit polls suggest that McCain did best among Republicans who care most about the economy, while Romney scored best on immigration. Many conservative leaders will never...
...towns that had been without power for more than 10 days. "This is very important, to allow Chinese people to have a good time at Chinese New Year," says Joseph Cheng, who heads the Contemporary China Research Project at City University of Hong Kong. Leaders who fail on that count, he says, "the people judge very harshly...