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...right to be proud. Song trained Lucky, one of China's first seeing-eye dogs and the first in the capital. Lucky's appearance at the Paralympics opening ceremony was a big chance to promote a kind of assistance for the disabled that didn't exist in China until recently. When Lucky came to Beijing last year, Ping complained on her blog that the Golden Retriever was technically banned under a Beijing rule against large dogs in public places. Police allowed Ping to keep Lucky at her side, but required that she only go out with the dog while accompanied...
...Republican Party's subliminal message seems stronger than ever this year because of the nature of the Democratic nominee for President. Barack Obama could not exist in the small-town America that Reagan fantasized. He's the product of what used to be called miscegenation, a scenario that may still be more terrifying than a teen daughter's pregnancy in many American households. Furthermore, he has thrived in the culture and economy that displaced Main Street America - an economy where people no longer work in factories or make things with their hands, but where lawyers and traders prosper unduly...
...unclear what serious alternatives exist to the kind of painful mass evacuations Louisiana officials ordered last week. A politically tricky situation remains: If state and local officials fail to move residents out of flood-prone areas, they risk charges of incompetence, or worse. But their hesitance after Gustav to allow residents to quickly return to areas that lacked basic services like electricity, grocery stores and gas stations brought the same accusations. In addition, their heightened rhetoric as Gustav approached - New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin at one point said it could be "the storm of the century" - only hurts their credibility...
...Beyond the goal of edifying upmarket audiences, these little films exist, essentially, to get nominated for Academy Awards. That brings the best kind of publicity - the free kind - and lures crowds of people who watch the Oscar show. For these movies, early critical and festival attention is crucial. Buzz is free...
...woman who's had no choice but to make this up as she goes along. By the time she had gotten through her first two or three punch lines, it was clear a new star had been born, one who could go places John McCain might not even know exist and say things he could never confess...