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...outcry for similar rights on the mainland and continues to stifle reform. Hong Kong's administration, which is chosen with Beijing's blessings, has not pressed the issue, either. "I don't like the way this government is acting," Chan says. She is particularly critical of Chief Executive Donald Tsang - her onetime civil-service subordinate - who, she says, has excluded supporters of democracy from the debate over universal suffrage. "For a Chief Executive who doesn't have a popular mandate, it seems to me all the more important that you embrace all the political parties. How else can you create...
...Elliott Roosevelt was not the only younger sibling of an eventual President to cause his family heartaches-or at least headaches. There was Donald Nixon and the loans he wangled from billionaire Howard Hughes. There was Billy Carter and his advocacy on behalf of the pariah state Libya. There was Roger Clinton and his year in jail on a cocaine conviction. And there is Neil Bush, younger sib of both a President and a Governor, implicated in the savings-and-loan scandals of the 1980s and recently gossiped about after the release of a 2002 letter in which he lamented...
...Iraq is so noble, why aren't you and your sister serving our country there? -Donald Pence, San FranciscoI understand that point, but there are many ways to serve our country, and I think my skills are better suited for teaching and representing the U.S. in Latin America through UNICEF. I respect the men and women of our country who are over there fighting. It is an unbelievably selfless thing to do. But if people really thought about it, they would know it's not even a practical question...
USAGE In April 2006, faced with increasing calls for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, President George W. Bush insisted to reporters in the Rose Garden, "I'm the decider, and I decide what is best...
...Radiohead has so far declined to comment on its motivations, but Donald Passman, the band's music attorney and author of All You Need to Know About the Music Business, insists his clients aren't on a crusade. "What this is all about is that they wanted to get their record to all their fans at the same time. This is not meant to be a model for the industry," he says...