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...that is, in many ways, little more than stage management. What will be far harder to discern will be what Obama himself is getting out of his trip. As Haass notes, "The real question is what he learns and ultimately incorporates into his thinking...
...aims to chip away at prejudice by making it harder for the private sector to discriminate on grounds of race in areas such as housing or employment. But some lawmakers and activists are incensed that, unlike previous anti-discrimination ordinances covering gender and disability, the law shields the Hong Kong bureaucracy from being held to the same standards as businesses. By lobbying for the exemption, "the government is using the law to undercut the very rights [we] seek to guarantee," said Hong Kong lawmaker Margaret Ng in a recent speech...
...outside world's diplomatic engagement with Pyongyang, could hardly have been worse. South Korean President Lee Myung Bak learned of Park's murder just 90 minutes before he was scheduled to give a speech setting out a new course for North-South relations - in effect abandoning the harder line he had come to office preaching. Lee gave the speech despite the furor that he and his aides knew would follow once news of the killing became public in the South later that afternoon. Lee's speech included no mention of the Mount Geumgang incident...
...wanted to do to Obama.) But by the end of the week the consensus was that Jackson had done Obama a favor, as the contretemps give Obama the freedom to distance himself from Jackson without directly offending his African-American base. Gramm's comments about economic hardship may be harder for McCain to shake, explaining the candidates immediate on-camera denunciation. They play right into negative stereotypes about Republican insensitivity to the suffering that McCain is trying to escape...
...whose core differences are narrowing. The current general election has seemed at times a contest about who can crib off the other party's platform more, from McCain's enthusiasm for using government to fight global warming to Obama's hedging on warrantless wiretapping. For an electorate having a harder time distinguishing Coke from Pepsi, there's a thirst for something--anything...