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...dual accountability to both Hong Kong and Beijing-is unique. It's also a constitutional reality. Universal suffrage without regard to this reality will risk serious confrontation between the Hong Kong electorate and China. We need to assure all parties that, when universal suffrage is introduced, Beijing will retain its power to appoint the Chief Executive. Both Hong Kong and Beijing will have to accept that the elected candidate is accountable also to the other side...
...Sel” resembles Aaron Siskind’s peeling posters, and the undulating reflections of reeds in “Roseaux, Le Marais d’Arles” hearken back to similar photographs by Harry Callahan. Still, these images are striking in their clarity and sophistication, and retain the mark of Clergue’s individuality. Downstairs, among throngs of nudes, one wall of the showroom hosts several of Clergue’s epic photographs of El Cordobés, the dauntless Andalusian matador. “Danseuse aux Affiches,” from his eerie series...
...this particular neighborhood peaceful. UNIFIL's core mission is to monitor the ceasefire that ended last summer's war between Israel and Hizballah, which is complicated by the fact that Hizballah still considers Israel to be occupying a small patch of Lebanese land, while Israel believes Hizballah wants to retain the capacity to rain rockets on towns in northern Israel...
...Coulter Cash’ this week, we can show that bigotry will only backfire on those who use it.” The e-mail is nothing short of farcical, and, in that respect, is precisely what the doctor ordered. How else do you retain your dignity while stooping to acknowledge the content of a speech by Coulter...
...care deeply about how my food tastes, and it makes sense that a snow pea grown by a local farmer and never refrigerated will retain more of its delicate leguminous flavor than one shipped in a frigid plane from Guatemala. And I realized that if more consumers didn't become part of the local-food market, it could disappear and all our peas would be those tasteless little pods from far away...