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...turning Baku into a boomtown, despite widespread poverty in the rest of the country. Regular Azeris, who have an average cash income of $1,140 a year, are reeling from inflation (tomatoes have recently doubled in price). But much of Baku is upbeat and partying. "There's a mood that Azerbaijan is now sustainable," says Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov. BP's operation has brought in thousands of oil workers and businesspeople, mostly British, who pack nightclubs with names like Le Chevalier and Le Mirage to dance with local women dressed in spiked boots and miniskirts. Baku's billboards announce this...
...real. Bush had once hoped to overhaul Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid all at once, saying these entitlement programs would hamstring today's children. Aides say that with Democrats in no mood to help, he will start with Social Security but is not going in with his past no-new-taxes swagger, nor will he insist on private accounts, as he did in 2005, though he wants to wind up with both. An official calls it the "new reality...
...global warming" and "scholarships" for "vouchers." Here, he gives TIME five stinkers '08 hopefuls should avoid. [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] BAD WORDS WHY Listening So much for the listening tours that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton made famous. Voters are in a results mood. "Too passive," Luntz instructs. "'Getting it done' is more active." Globalization The word "frightens older workers," Luntz warns, since they translate it as losing U.S. jobs to other countries. A more palatable way to convey the idea: "free-market economy." Eavesdropping It doesn't say antiterrorism. It says "people listening...
...bubbles away in my beloved Kuala Lumpur food courts is one of the last strongholds of Malaysia's multi-culti ideal. Half a century after the Southeast Asian nation broke free from British rule and formed a multiethnic state, national unity is being cleaved by race politics. The divisive mood was on display at the November party conference of Malaysia's biggest political party, the Malay-dominated UMNO, during which one delegate spoke of his willingness to ?bathe in blood? to defend the Malay ethnicity. Another held aloft a keris ceremonial dagger. The targets of this demagoguery were unnamed...
...people, it sounded good at the time. The country was united, the military was triumphant, the mood was resolute. Americans were ready, literally, to take on the world...