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...news is that Hong Kong's democracy is still immature, and it has shown. The candidates were civil, pragmatic, unwilling to waste time?the virtues that make Hong Kong great. The flip side of all that, however, was a tendency not to probe issues deeply, a certain lack of political seriousness. James Tien, head of the pro-business Liberal Party and textile scion, maintained that democracy really means affluence of the kind Hong Kong has come to expect and that the needs of the hour are stability and tending of the economy. "Does having one man-one vote give...
...sparkling as the glitter in their hair, and Michael Phelps looked merely human. Before long, though, the U.S. was sitting in its customary place atop the medal standings, with golds in everything from double trap shooting to road cycling to gymnastics; the swim team alone took 28 medals. While flip turns and double Arabians are cute in a quadrennial sort of way, they do not display the full range of what Americans consider athleticism, nor do they make easy metaphors for national character. That's what home runs and slam dunks are for, and with the baseball team not even...
...Qaeda leadership at Tora Bora. That sort of detailed, sophisticated critique has vanished from Kerry's repertoire. He hasn't had anything of interest to say about the humiliating American retreat from Fallujah--a city that has subsequently become a miniature rogue state within Iraq--or about the mystifying, flip-floppy U.S. attitude toward the Shi'ite revolutionary Muqtada al-Sadr. Kerry hasn't said whether he thinks Bush Administration policy was responsible for the torture at Abu Ghraib. He has mentioned--but hasn't really exploited--the growing sense in the military and intelligence communities that...
Your article stated that "the Democratic candidate deals in shades of gray, which means reaching a decision can be a long and winding road." Unfortunately, Kerry's winding road contains so many hairpin turns--his flip-flops--that he does not inspire confidence. RICHARD L. JOHNSON College Station, Texas...
...wasn't going to vote for Kerry because of his reputation for flip-flopping. But if it becomes evident you have made the wrong decision, it's time to flip-flop. When Kerry's eyes were opened to what was happening in Vietnam, he opposed the war that he had volunteered to fight in. I was taken in by the lies regarding the dangers posed by Iraq. I was in favor of a pre-emptive war to get Saddam Hussein before he used weapons of mass destruction against the U.S. or supplied them to terrorists. I now realize we Americans...