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...1950s, India's relationship with China was strained, to say the least. The two countries briefly went to war in 1962 over a border dispute, and for the next couple of decades, the Dalai Lama's presence in India became almost a badge of honor for Delhi-living proof that democratic India was freer and more tolerant than its authoritarian neighbor. Over the last decade, though, and especially since Delhi formally recognized the Tibetan autonomous region as part of China in 2003, India has taken a sterner line on Tibetan protests, discouraging them before they can start and breaking them...
While the GT-R is further proof of Nissan's global dna--it is, after all, a Japanese company run by a Frenchman--Nissan has never deviated from keeping the GT-R's image rooted in Japan. (Ghosn's steering committee even toyed with the idea of linking the GT-R with Godzilla.) Mizuno often says that the car was born in Japan and raised in Germany. The GT-R, he says, is an expression of the Japanese senpai-kohai system, in which the more experienced teach their juniors. The GT-R team simply took that Japanese concept and exported...
...snap the pictures silently. The fluctuating value of a vote seems to have returned to its level in the 1950s, when the businessman-mayor of Naples, Achille Lauro, offered packs of pasta and a new left shoe before an election. The right shoe could be collected afterward upon proof that the correct choice had been made...
...bring to the White House," she told reporters the morning before the contests. "And Senator Obama has a speech he made in 2002" - a reference to Obama's declaration against the Iraq invasion that she and McCain had voted to authorize. Obama has repeatedly referred to that speech as proof that his judgment is superior, even if his résumé is shorter...
...difference between Saturday and Sunday in Cuba is nothing,” he says in reference to Saturday, Feb. 24, the day that Raul Castro, the island’s only candidate, was elected president.Balmori points to Raul’s first acts as president as proof of the continuation of the status quo under the new government. Raul asked permission of the government to consult his brother on state matter and appointed José Ramón Machado Ventura his vice president. Balmori describes Ventura as “a revolutionary who served with Fidel Castro renowned...