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...policies. But people know that I believe in what I say and that I will do what I say I will do." Meanwhile, Sestak warns fellow Democrats that they can't count on Specter to stay with them if he wins the primary: "He is a flight risk after May 18." (See pictures from the Pennsylvania Senate race...
...1950s and '60s into something altogether different: a gaudy, top-hat-wearing, pipe-smoking creature with a trademark piercing cry of "Top o' the morning!" The leprechaun made popular by Lucky Charms commercials and movies and musicals like Darby O'Gill and the Little People and Finian's Rainbow may be beloved in places like the U.S., but not in Ireland. "It is a derogatory symbol from an Irish perspective," says Brian Twomey, head of marketing and communications for Ireland's tourism bureau. "It is certainly not something that we would...
...abundant natural resource is splattering down around visitors, and a leprechaun well that appears to be infinitely deep, thanks to the help of multimedia screens and video cameras. The poetry and lyricism of the exhibits, O'Rahilly believes, will captivate locals and tourists alike. "If it goes well, we may finally be able to welcome the leprechaun back to respectability," he says pithily. "And if it goes wrong, I will be the biggest fool in Christendom...
...democrats are willing to trade votes for assurances that the Chief Executive will be elected by universal suffrage (and that the nomination committee will be greatly expanded, if not abolished) by 2017 and that legislature will abolish functional constituencies by 2020. Proving the ability to cooperate with the government may do more to sway Beijing that Hong Kong is ready for democracy than exercising the right to act as a loyal opposition...
...Uighur autonomous region of Xinjiang. In 2003 an antisedition bill proposed by the local government was defeated after a million people took to the streets in protest. Beijing has not formally made the antisedition law a precondition to democracy, but there have been subtle hints that it may be a factor: in December, Chinese President Hu Jintao praised Macau, China's other SAR, which has passed...