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...fact, Obama still enjoys favorable approval ratings in both Virginia and New Jersey. And according to the exit polls, he wasn't much of a motivator for the relatively small number of voters who actually bothered to cast a ballot. In New Jersey, 60% said the President was not a factor in their decisions; among those who said he was, nearly as many were there to show their support (19%) as their opposition (20%) to Obama. In Virginia, the results were similar. Weighing far more heavily were concerns about the economy. (Read "What's Still Wrong with Wall Street...
...meantime, more Cuban Americans are pouring into Cuba after Obama's relaxation of the travel and remittance rules for those with family on the island. The number of those travelers is expected to hit 200,000 this year, says Armando Garcia, president of Mar Azul Charters in Miami. That would be double the annual flow since 2004, when then President George W. Bush put the restrictions in place. If the travel ban were lifted altogether, recent studies suggest some 3 million Americans would visit Cuba each year. It's uncertain whether they would be effective ambassadors. But after almost...
...ASEAN, which admitted Burma as a member in 1997, has advocated a course of "constructive engagement" as a way of moderating the regime's behavior, including expanding economic and business ties. Stothard says that policy has failed, as evidenced by what she calls "an all-time high in the number of political prisoners and a spike in military aggression against the country's ethnic minorities...
...front-runners appear to be three low-key "fixers": Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy, Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker. While all three may be somewhat bland and anonymous even in their home countries, they appeal to a growing number of E.U. countries - in particular the smaller ones - because they would excel at operating behind the scenes. (Read: "Opposition Grows to Tony Blair's Bid for E.U. President...
...state's keynote speaker at the embassy rally was drowned out by the chants of nearby protesters. Worse still from the prospective of Iran's leaders, these chants were picked up by the live radio feed of the event and broadcast throughout the country. In this environment, the number of protestes that show up matters less than the fact that protests are occurring on a regular basis and outside of university settings, something that would have been unthinkable just a few months...