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...What are your next steps with Beijing? We have just done a very small step by allowing charter flights. That has to be improved. If you fly from Shanghai to Taipei you still have to fly over the airspace of Hong Kong. The air controllers of Taiwan and the mainland are still unable to talk to each other. We have to change that, and we may be able to change that in the next couple of months so that we can save fuel and time. Then we open up direct navigation between the seaports in China and Taiwan. Next year...
...tell us that you are not bold and decisive enough, that you are too nice a guy for the rough and tumble of Taiwan politics. I admit I'm a nice guy, but I'm not just nice. I'm also bold and decisive. Otherwise I could not have done so much in 21/2 months...
...worked the state. Oberstar has given Franken only one bit of advice, which he delivered right after they met years ago at another barbecue. "I told him, 'You have to stop laughing when you talk to people.' It was an unconscious action on his part. Something he's done in his career." Franken's harsh, loud laugh after his own jokes isn't just weird for a politician; it's weird for a comedian. It's a bully's laugh, a challenge to disagree. And like all his tools, Franken wields it bluntly, completely unlike a politician...
...international community has not done enough to push back. In recent weeks, a series of incidents along the fragile cease-fire lines that cut across Georgian territory helped prompt the escalation of violence, including Georgia's abortive effort to remove the "government" of South Ossetia, a small region with a population of about 70,000 people. That rash action was perhaps unwise, but it is evident from Russia's military response that Moscow was waiting for such an act to provide a pretext for the use of force. Large Russian contingents quickly swept into South Ossetia and then into Georgia...
...Olympic swimming medal when he claimed a silver in the 400m freestyle. The Chinese women's squad also scored a second-place finish in the 4x200m freestyle relay, while Pang Jiaying contributed a bronze in the women's 200m freestyle. And the Chinese may not be done yet, with several key races in the next few days. With seven swimming gold medals as of the afternoon of Aug. 14, America is the undisputed star of the Water Cube. But China is swimming comfortably in its wake...