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...Chinese officials argue that the mainland needs to fix major domestic financial problems, such as a banking sector riddled with bad loans, before tackling currency reform. In any event, President Bush will be able to push China only so hard. America is becoming more and more dependent on Asia for its own growth. U.S. companies, from General Motors to Motorola to McDonald's, are banking on China as a substantial source of future profits. Cheap imports of toys and electronics from China fill stores in the U.S. and help keep American consumers spending and supporting their own economy...
...that only 30 percent of registered youth voters turn out at the polls,” said Devin Lyons-Quirk ’05, who volunteered to make calls on his cell phone. “It’s easy to just make three phone calls to help fix this problem...
...economy and hundreds of billions of dollars of debt are not good reasons to begin plundering the resources in our own backyard, especially when plundering them won’t even fix the problem. Is our need for oil really so great that we should despoil one of our nation’s natural treasures? No, not when we could be more actively pursuing alternative fuels and practicing conservation. There are as many better options that don’t include drilling to solving the current oil crisis as there are migratory birds roosting in the Western Arctic Reserve. It?...
...fraud and intimidation; and branches of government built to balance and cool one another instead starting to melt. The fact that the last presidential election was decided by the Supreme Court paved the way for more legal challenges, if not mischief, this time around. And Congress's effort to fix all the problems, the Help America Vote Act, may have only made them worse. (See following story...
...differences in philosophy may turn out to be somewhat less stark when put into practice." The most immediate challenge that will face either man as President--how to buttress a credibly elected Iraqi government in the face of a ruthless insurgency--won't bend to a quick fix. Both Kerry and Bush argue that a rapid turnover of combat duties to Iraqis would provide relief to U.S. troops, but that objective may take years to achieve. Though Kerry hopes to pull U.S. forces out by the end of his first term, the danger that Iraq could descend into terrorism-torn...