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...still up against Pacquiao, the phenom from the Philippines who had risen through several weight classes to win six titles in as many divisions. At the end of the night, Pacquiao had his seventh. After the referee stopped the fight in the 55th second of the 12th and final round, Pacquiao became the new welterweight champion of boxing by TKO. He had knocked down Cotto in the third and fourth rounds, even as the Puerto Rican had traded tough blows to the head and body with Pacquiao throughout the early going. By the end of the sixth round, however, after...
...Puerto Rico vs. the Republic of the Philippines) did its fair share to rev up excitement in a town that is used to ethnic marketing (note the billboards for visiting superstars from South Korea, north Africa and Israel, alongside those of Bette Midler and Carrot Top). On fight night, national flags were worn as athletic costumes, though the big money men were still accompanied by towering escorts in body-tight metallic lamé and slave-ankle stilettos. Some traditions never change...
...this tension between the public celebration of friendship and the quiet struggle over intractable issues is a microcosm for Obama's first year on the world stage. On Saturday night, Obama landed in Singapore, the 18th nation he has visited in just 10 months, far more than any of his predecessors. At almost every stop, he has espoused a new vision for world relations, one of greater communication, collaboration and cooperation, even among historic foes. "As I have said, in an interconnected world, power does not need to be a zero-sum game, and nations need not fear the success...
...official message on the President's travels through Asia is that the U.S. cares about the region. "America understands the importance of Asia in the 21st century," White House aides repeat, in various iterations, with some frequency. On Friday night in Tokyo, Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes went so far as to call Obama, "the first Pacific President that the U.S. has had" - a reference to Obama's childhood years in Hawaii and Indonesia. (See pictures of the first eight months of Obama's diplomacy...
...focused messaging is running up against international and domestic events. On the flight to Asia, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs came to the press cabin on Air Force One only to be barraged with 12 consecutive questions about Afghanistan, followed by a question about Iraq. Later on Friday night, in Tokyo, during a briefing by Gibbs and Rhodes about Obama's speech on Saturday morning laying out a vision of U.S.-Asian relations, another news event intervened: White House counsel Greg Craig was leaving the White House, to be replaced by Obama's personal and campaign attorney, Bob Bauer...