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...that are directly or indirectly connected to scandal. We are in the middle of an unpopular war, and we had those scandals, yet it was an average election. That says something about the durability of the Republican message. THC: Why do you think people criticize you so frequently and protest at your speeches? KR: I like to focus on the positive side. I’ve been surprised with the civility with which I’m mostly met. There are always occasional nuts. It’s generally the older townies when I go to campuses that...
...months before the Beijing Olympics begin. The visible was front-and-center in the world media as the OIympic torch made its way through various countries on a circuitous route to the Games. Everywhere Chinese security is on guard against activists prepared to disrupt the flame's progress to protest China's human rights record in Tibet and in the enormous province of Xinjiang. In London, a protester tried to grab the flame away from its official bearer; at one point, the torch had to make its way through the city within the protective confines of a bus. Earlier, when...
...think boycotting the opening ceremony, which really gives respect to the Chinese government, is something that should be kept on the table.' NANCY PELOSI, U.S. Speaker of the House, recommending that the U.S. consider not attending the Games' premiere in protest of the Chinese crackdown in Tibet...
Despite such sweet and sour experiences (including one in 1988 that produced the memorable tabloid headline GAYS PROTEST VATICAN BIGGY), the Pope likes New York and what it stands for. "I think he's really fascinated by the city and what it represents," says Raphaela Schmid, a Rome-based German with the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, who knows him. "It's about people being two things at once, like Italian Americans or Chinese Americans. He's interested in that idea of coexistence...
...Zimbabwe's regeneration, says Michelle Gavin, Adjunct Scholar on Africa at the Council on Foreign Relations, "would have to be an all-hands-on-deck effort." International financial institutions and donors, which ended their involvement to protest the regime's corruption and human rights abuses, would be likely to step in with emergency programs to bring Zimbabwe back from the brink. And already international investors sense a bargain in the making. LonZim, an investment fund set up by the Lonrho mining group last December, has already raised $65 million to invest in Zimbabwe. "We're very bullish that Zimbabwe...