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...Rabinowitz has occasionally had to negotiate with less than savory characters - no more so than in his most recent and crowning accomplishment, the establishment of a 8,452 sq. mi. (13,602 sq. km) tiger reserve in the northern jungles of Burma. The military junta that has ruled the nation since 1962 is among the most oppressive governments in the world, one regularly accused of human rights violations, and Washington maintains harsh economic sanctions against the regime. But for more than a decade Rabinowitz has traveled back and forth from Burma - which the junta now calls Myanmar - meeting with everyone...
...China has been transformed by Deng Xiaoping's exhortation that "to get rich is glorious," but Hu wants to narrow the gap between rich and poor so every Chinese can share in the wealth of economic growth. Hu has built a good image for China and expanded the nation's global influence. He will eventually encourage the Chinese people to accelerate political reform. Song Xiaowen, Zhongli City, Taiwan...
...Castellanos. However, their new pitch hinges on basking in the reflected glow of his shiny message of change - "With Barack Obama, the people of Iowa have shown they want change," is now a standard line in Romney's stump speech - while also painting him as a dangerous radical: "The nation wants us to move forward, but," he says, referring to Obama, "do we want it to be a sharp left? Following in the path of the Europe...
...line with Clinton. But Obama refused. He couldn't do that, he said, and besides, such an old-fashioned approach ran counter to the whole strategic design the campaign: to build a coalition of Democrats, independents and even Republicans for a new kind of bipartisan approach to solving the nation's problems...
...saying that we have to restore trust and confidence in government. That is the key element of any successful governing individual or party, because we have lost trust and confidence. We have to regain it. I don't believe in abandoning principles and values that have made this nation great. I say that change is the kind of change like I made... [that] I and others are responsible for in Iraq. That is a big change. But it also goes back to the classic counter-insurgency strategy that has succeeded in the past so... everybody is for change. The reason...