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...Vermonter got to where he is today by being a rebel, a straight talker. He revolutionized campaigning online, reaching new voters through blogs and meetup groups. Union endorsements and campaign coffers stuffed to the brim don?t fit the image. The last thing he wants to do is turn off his most loyal supporters by letting them think he?s just another politician. So instead of holding a focus group to find out whether his fans will stomach his opting out of federal financing, he?s taking the question directly to the masses. As John McCain?s 2000 strategist Mike...
Other groups to take T.T.’s stage before making it big include Jane’s Addiction and the Smashing Pumpkins. Some more recent performers include …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, the Black Keys, the Detroit Cobras, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Chicks on Speed...
...Like Singham, millions of other Sri Lankans are finally beginning to rebuild their lives. As the 20-month cease-fire between the government and the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) brings Sri Lanka its first real respite from a 20-year civil war, the island nation of 19 million people is enjoying its biggest economic boom in decades. Foreign tourists are rediscovering Sri Lanka's fabled beaches, local consumers are on a spending binge and corporate profits are surging. The economy is expected to grow by 5.5% this year. Land prices are rising, and the stock market...
...downtown Lima, inside Peru's National Antiterrorism Bureau, agents are putting the finishing touches on the new Terror Museum. Most of the display cases hold police-confiscated kitsch: rebel soap carvings, music boxes that play communist hymns, all of them bearing the image of Abimael Guzmán. "Presidente Gonzalo," as his followers call him, is the leader of Shining Path, the bloodthirsty Maoist guerrillas who killed more than half of the 69,000 Peruvians who died in the armed conflicts of the 1980s and early '90s, according to a report issued in August by Peru's Truth and Reconciliation...
...recognizing Taiwan and China as part of a single political entity. That policy, which remains the cornerstone of U.S.-China relations today, prevents Washington from recognizing Taiwan as a sovereign state, and was crafted as a concession to Beijing's view of the island as nothing more than a rebel province. But it was made palatable to Chiang by the fact that he saw himself as the leader not simply of Taiwan, but of all China...