Word: hot-button
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...outing. The pontiff's just-completed stay in Austria was built around a visit to Mariazell, an 850-year-old shrine to Mary in the foothills of the Alps, just over two hours south of Vienna. And though Benedict used his three-day trip to touch on some familiar hot-button issues both inside and outside his Church - abortion, euthanasia, the so-called "de-Christianization" of Europe - he did so in a context and spirit that matched the humble "just-a-pilgrimage" billing he announced just before takeoff from Rome on Friday...
...rogue primaries. In swing states like Michigan and Florida, the absence of major Democratic political activity for four months could severely damage the party nominee's general-election chances. In Florida, primary participants may be especially sensitive to being told their votes won't count. "Disenfranchisement is, um, a hot-button issue here," says a Florida Democratic Party official, alluding to lingering fury over the electoral fiasco...
...across the Alps on Friday, this time for three days in Austria, which sits just on the border of his native Bavaria. He will again deliver a series of speeches in German, including an address Friday evening to a gathering of international diplomats in Vienna that touched on some hot-button issues facing world leaders. Speaking with a slightly hoarse voice, the Pope delivered something of a wake-up call to Europeans who "need to make their political importance felt" in troubled regions like Darfur and the Middle East, and in the fight against poverty. "Europe has a unique responsibility...
...Richardson's talk, at the Wells Fargo Hola Diversity conference in Des Moines, is part of his quiet wooing of Iowa's Latino vote. In a midwestern state where immigration is hot-button issue, Richardson is walking a fine line, trying to attract support from the state's small but growing Hispanic population while convincing Iowans leery of illegal aliens that he will not throw open U.S. borders to Mexico...
...prevent it, Team Damongrass will collaborate later this year on a project that calls for more brain than brawn: Imperial Life in the Emerald City, based on the book by the Washington Post's former Baghdad bureau chief Rajiv Chandrasekaran about the chaos in U.S.-occupied Iraq. The hot-button political subject suits the preppy New Englander, 36, and scruffy Brit, 51, whose commitment to residing in the uncomfortable world of real life is reflected in a Bourne Ultimatum scene with a black-hooded CIA prisoner that is obviously intended to conjure up the snapshots from Abu Ghraib...