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Rating a Renegade It's discouraging that so many republicans oppose Senator John McCain, because he's just what President George W. Bush promised to be but finally never was - a uniter, not a divider [Feb. 4]. At a time when the nation needs to come together under the unifying leadership of a moderate consensus builder, the neoconservative élites that have come to dominate the Republican Party want confrontation. The only way to save the Party is to drop the ideologues, who are more interested in waging a culture war than in uniting the nation to face an uncertain...
...discouraging that so many Republicans oppose Senator John McCain, because he's just what President George W. Bush promised to be but finally never was--a uniter, not a divider [Feb. 4]. At a time when the nation needs to come together under the unifying leadership of a moderate consensus builder, the neoconservative élites that have come to dominate the GOP want confrontation. The only way to save the Republican Party is to drop the ideologues, who are more interested in waging a culture war than in uniting the nation to face its uncertain and dangerous future...
...Trying out a new slogan, Obama said Super Tuesday proved, "this time can be different." "What began as a whisper has now swelled to a chorus that cannot be ignored; that will not be deterred; that will ring out across this land as a hymn that will heal this nation, repair this world, and make this time different than all the rest." At least in his prose, Obama doesn't sound like an underdog...
Over the past century, Missouri has proved a nearly flawless barometer of presidential elections. So it was only fitting in this year's muddled nomination races that both its Democratic and Republican races on Super Tuesday were two of the tightest in the nation, with Barack Obama and John McCain winning their respective contests by the slightest of margins...
...week, Wen told the travelers that they "eat bitterness" - a Chinese expression for enduring hardship. That may be true even when they're not stranded by the snow. It has been the willingness of millions of migrant workers to suffer grueling hours at low pay that has turned this nation into an economic power. Lately, authorities have begun to realize they cannot take such sacrifice for granted. "Only in the last couple of years, as labor prices have begun to rise, have local authorities in Guangdong paid more attention to migrant workers," says Dali Yang, director of the East Asian...