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...While the evolution of China's civil society was put on hold during the Olympics, Bequelin and others say they think the longer-term outlook is bright. "It's a battle in which Chinese are trying to get government off their backs," says Bequelin. "This has nothing to do with the legitimacy of the Communist Party or debates about political systems." What's being fought for is access to information and greater personal freedom, the "fundamental tools Chinese people need to organize their lives in a market economy. I don't see how progress on those fronts can be reversed...
...attract votes beyond the base, McCain's convention must trumpet his peerless credentials as a reformer. He must engage passionately on middle-class economic issues. McCain's comfort zone may be world affairs, but if he cannot hold his own in a kitchen-table debate with Obama on jobs, schools and health care, he'll visit ticket-splitting kitchens once more on Election Day, but this time as toast. Finally, he must give the convention speech of a lifetime...
...projections are part of a broader analysis of European populations which also concludes that, if current demographic trends hold, the natural growth in population in the continent as a whole will end in just seven years time, when the number of deaths overtakes the number of births. Thanks to immigration the E.U.'s population will continue to grow to 520 million by 2035 before falling back to 506 million by 2060. (The U.S. population, according to another recent study, will increase over the same period from about 300 million today to 468 million in 2060, most of that increase coming...
...emotion. Clinton supporter and Florida delegate Cathy Bartolotti, a former Tampa city worker, had bought an Obama T shirt and button but wasn't able to wear the items yet. "By Thursday, maybe I'll put it on," she said. "We have to come together, but I want to hold out a little more. Just tomorrow. Give...
...good, worthless -" Minnow said, jumping up angrily. "Hold it," Obama said, raising a hand. "We're going to get married...