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...Hong Kong's democracy movement crested in 2003, when SARS, a steep economic downturn, and a controversial security law galvanized massive street protests. Since then, the pro-democracy parties have fractured and their influence has waned. Sunday's turnout of 45% was down almost 11% from 2004. "There's a little sense of political impotence and apathy," says the Civic Party's Cheng, who is also a political science professor at City University of Hong Kong...
...Israel - for speaking engagements and charity work since leaving the race. He has joined Fox News as a political contributor, with the potential for an expanded role at the channel later this fall. He has also finished work on his next book, Do the Right Thing: Inside the Movement That Is Changing America. Huckabee is now coy about the book's content, citing his promise to the publisher to keep it under embargo. But back in April he was a bit more forthcoming about his post-primary feelings, especially among those Evangelical leaders who failed to foresee the churchgoing enthusiasm...
...event also brought some gripes that free running should not be holding a competition because it was based on something more, well, spiritual. Free runners' "movements would no longer be a reflection of them as much as it would be competing for the judges," wrote one chat room user on a free-running website recently. "Free and competition just seem to not go together well." And free running's flamboyance and flair don't impress everyone; hard-core parkour fans instead prize efficiency and speed in their movement...
...just two of the event's sponsors, lined the London venue. Keen to tap the sport's broad audience - pinstripe suits and polka-dot dresses figured among the sweat pants and sneakers in the crowd - Dan Mathieson, head of sponsorship at Barclaycard, even claimed "the fluidity and freedom of movement associated with free running mirror the key needs of Barclaycard customers." To fans of the free-spirited sport, that's a tough sell: Mathieson's presence on the stage at the end of competition drew loud jeers from the crowd...
...further distance itself from Tehran if Sarkozy can persuade Assad that he has far more to gain by being a cooperative and accountable partner to the West. That would help pursue wider U.S. interests of narrowing Iran's scope for using its ally in Lebanon's Shi'ite Hizballah movement as a proxy, and also to further isolate and raise pressure on Teheran over its nuclear program...