Word: priore
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...plan, however, was anything but welcoming. Chen Zuo'er, the deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, was at pains to stress that it was Beijing-and by implication, not local Hong Kongers-that took the lead on political reform during negotiations with the British prior to the handover. Present-day activists in Hong Kong, Chen said, were just "people who now pretend to be democratic heroes...
...also program the device to display stock quotes based on your own portfolio, as well as news and weather bulletins from your hometown. The Web-enabled phones can even be pre-tuned to your favorite online radio stations. Best of all, if you forward snapshots of your loved ones prior to your arrival, they'll be beaming back at you from the phone's display screen the moment you walk in. The pictures, and other aspects of your profile, can be updated online as you fancy...
...telling that this watershed moment involved American employees of a private security contractor. Of all the changes in tactics that have made the war in Iraq distinct from prior U.S. engagements, perhaps no shift is as profound as the massive hiring--and varied deployment--of private contractors in combat zones. There are an estimated 100,000 contractors in Iraq, compared with a fraction of that the last time the U.S. was fighting there, and they are not working in just mess halls. They are bodyguards for vips, snipers in the field, translators and interrogators. They man checkpoints at Army bases...
...percent of the applicants for the 2007-2008 academic year come from paid lunch families. But under the prior system they could fill at most was only 65 percent of the total seats, according to Superintendent of Schools Thomas Fowler-Finn...
...rather that it should always be attempted.” In making this argument, Shapiro meticulously picks apart every aspect of the Bush Doctrine, to show how and why it is ineffective. He compares it to historical precedent, designating six features of the doctrine that are extreme departures from prior American national security policy. He attacks Bush’s hypocrisy by using the president’s own stance in the 2000 elections as a contrast to his present policy. And he weighs the detriment—fiscal, moral, and military—the United States has faced since...