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...Those nervous at spats between China and Japan have one prayer: that the U.S., which has close relationships with both nations-and is the guarantor of Taiwan's security-will continue to hug Asia's powers in a comforting embrace. Few things so exercise gabfests on the future of Asia as the fear that the U.S., absorbed by the Islamic world and a desire to rebuild its relations with Europe, spends too little time thinking about the region. For an Asia left to its own devices, where China and Japan are allowed to intensify their rivalry without Washington spreading...
...Minutes after the President finished his speech, Ron Reagan-a de facto Dem since he spoke at the party's convention-was opining on MSNBC that the al-Souhail- Norwood hug was exploitative and staged. Others soon expressed similarly mingy thoughts. This was a symptom of a larger disease: most Democrats seemed as reluctant as Kerry to express the slightest hint of optimism about the elections. Congressional leaders Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi diminished themselves by staging an unnecessary pre-buttal and a misleading rebuttal to the President's speech...
...which leaves Bush with a lot of room to lead. His speech last week was striking, and not just for that memorable hug. It could easily have been delivered by a New Democrat, with the exceptions of his empty call for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage-a congressional nonstarter, but a sop to religious conservatives-and his continued refusal to support federal funding for new stem-cell-research lines. No doubt, neither Bill Clinton nor Al Gore would have invaded Iraq unilaterally or lowered taxes on the rich, but this wasn't a speech about that. It celebrated democracy...
...always ready with a big hug and he was always thinking about the students,” said Judith Palfrey, Adams House co-master. “He was an absolutely wonderful person and I’m going to miss him so much...
...tried to hug the tree until the water receded