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...party switch was the last straw. "I always thought Specter was good for Pennsylvania. He fought to keep the Navy Yard open," says Goldstein, who is active in local Republican politics in the village of Plymouth Meeting. "But now he's kind of burned-out, more like a puppet being pushed around, and he doesn't know what he is doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pennsylvania Senate Race: Specter Under Fire | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

...Westerners denying China its sovereign right to govern. Furthermore, while some of China’s laws may abridge freedoms considered essential to democracy, their legal weight does not diminish simply because they are the product of a legitimate, albeit authoritarian, regime, instead of the sanctioned handiwork of a puppet government propped up by the United States...

Author: By Marion Liu | Title: A New Take on Censorship | 3/10/2010 | See Source »

...Navalny dismisses the suggestions that he is a puppet of murky forces and says his income from his corporate-law practice is sufficient to finance his crusades. "Not a single one of these managers in these large companies believes I am doing this just as some sort of battle for justice," Navalny says. "These people can't believe that someone would do something for anything other than money." (See "Russia's YouTube Craze: Exposing Police Corruption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's Erin Brockovich: Taking On Corporate Greed | 3/9/2010 | See Source »

...stepped back from the E.U., regularly taking a different path when Europe attempted a unified policy (notably during the financial crisis in 2008 and 2009), and strengthening ties with Russia, to the chagrin of Britain and France. "Behind the scenes Germany is still pretty much the puppet master in the E.U., pulling many strings," says Ulrike Guérot, head of the Berlin office of the European Council on Foreign Relations. "But sometimes Berlin is deciding not to pull any strings at all now, in which case nothing happens. Germany is starting to become good at avoiding Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Incredible Shrinking Europe | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

After watching lion dancers on the street, the attendees—mainly composed of families with young children—headed into the Kong for an open house event featuring arts-and-crafts on the second floor and entertainment, including a puppet show and dancing, on the third...

Author: By Michelle B. Timmerman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Kong Celebrates Chinese New Year | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

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