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...leave her house, which was scheduled to be torn down to make way for Xintiandi, Shanghai's sprawling outdoor shopping-and-restaurant development. As she was borne out, like some parody of an imperial courtesan in a eunuch-shouldered sedan chair, the Mao-suited woman kept screaming a phrase in Shanghainese. I asked a friend what it meant. "Remember history," she told...
...Kerry's former running mate is declaring his independence from a phrase that politicians have been brandishing with brio for more than five years. At last month's Democrat debate in South Carolina, moderator Brian Williams asked the eight candidates: "Show of hands question: Do you believe there is such a thing as a global war on terror...
...Senator Hillary Clinton's hand shot up. After hesitating noticeably, Senator Barack Obama joined her. Edwards did not, even though he has used the phrase himself and a policy paper on his Web site refers to "winning the war on terror." And now, in his first interview to explain his turnabout, Edwards tells TIME that he will no longer use what he views as "a Bush-created political phrase...
...Republicans, too, are trying alternate formulations. Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani tells TIME that the phrase "served its purpose for awhile" but should now be superseded. "I have been referring to it for quite some time as 'the terrorist war against us' - not just America, but people who think like we do, basically the ideas of modern democracy," Giuliani said. "In order to deal with the terrorists' global war on us, we have to be on offense...
...global war against terror. You can call it a global war against extremists, a global war against radicals, a global war against people who want to hurt America. You can call it whatever you want, but it is a global effort." The president, who has been using the phrase since at least June 2002, drew laughter in 2004 when he told a convention of UNITY: Journalists of Color Inc.: "We actually misnamed the war on terror. It ought to be: 'the struggle against ideological extremists who do not believe in free societies who happen to use terror as a weapon...