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...primaries is well suited to the general election, which revolves around television soundbites, not town hall meetings and church basement gatherings. For Romney, though, the biggest barrier may be the well-documented personal animosity that existed between McCain and him during the primary. But Romney tried to minimize its import. "Despite the fact that we differed on issues, in every debate I pointed out my respect for him," Romney said, leaving out the fact that those compliments were often followed by sharp attacks on McCain. Romney said he now considers McCain "a friend," having watched...
...seven months ago, she didn't expect the job market would be quite so inhospitable. "I've had eight interviews so far," says Huang, an international-trade graduate of Anhui University of Finance & Economics, "but I still don't have a decent offer. And I just had an export-import company in Shanghai cancel an interview. They told me, 'We're not hiring anymore, our business is down and we think it's going to get worse...
...Matsui's pursuit of aesthetic pleasure is something Japan's traditional craftsmen understood well. Few nations imbue objects with as much import as Japan does. Tokyo must be the only government that designates the best potters or woodblock printers as Living National Treasures, or, to use the formal name, Bearers of Important Intangible Cultural Assets. The appellation currently applies only to artisans whose crafts have not strayed from the confines of the past. But with younger Japanese now introducing the world to updated versions of ancient culture, Japanese bureaucrats might do well to expand the definition. The new "Made...
...minimizing the import of McCain's military service, Clark instead opened the door to the sort of criticism that Obama, who painstakingly praises McCain's military record at virtually every event, cannot afford. Cable-television talking heads feasted on the comments, with at least one partisan going so far as to accuse the Obama campaign of "swift-boating" McCain. The episode shows how hard it is for Obama to criticize McCain's potential as Commander in Chief without being perceived as attacking McCain's military record. "In this case, I'm not sure the American people are going to separate...
Officially, this shouldn't be happening. The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal was established by the UN in 1989 to control the hazardous garbage flowing from rich countries to poor ones. The convention allows countries to unilaterally ban the import of waste, and requires exporters to get the consent of destination countries before they send trash abroad. But the United States, a prime source of e-waste and other toxic waste, never signed onto the treaty, leaving it weakened, and some of the destination nations - most prominently China - quietly allow...