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The organizers of Hong Kong's annual July 1 pro-democracy march had hoped to strike the right sartorial chord by asking that demonstrators wear white - a symbol, they suggested, of the purity of the city's democratic hopes. It would have made a demonstrative change from the ubiquitous red...
If the battle over immigration reform in Congress is any indication, the final 18 months of George W. Bush's presidency may be marked by pitched--and very public--skirmishes between Republicans on the Hill and the Republican White House.
This type of weather always brings tragedy - cars swept away, traffic accidents, flooded homes - but out in the hills it also brings abundance. Ranchers won't be burning the spines off cactus this year to provide food for grazing cattle. The deer population, savaged last year as starving does aborted...
The healthcare industry is on red alert. Jeff McWaters, CEO of the HMO Amerigroup, has listed the film's June 29 release among the "headline risks" for the industry. Sicko has already sparked heated debate and more is certain to come. "People see Moore as uniquely honest and truthful in...
When I met Kurt Waldheim in Vienna in 1994, the Balkans were doubly at issue, a generation apart. Though I lived in the Austrian capital, I was spending most of my time covering the brutal fighting and ethnic displacements then racking a disintegrating Yugoslavia. Waldheim had served a painful term...