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...depend on the law and instead depending on 'natural law.'" Journalist and author Chen Guidi is more blunt: "If word of these declarations starts to spread to peasants around the countryside, it could become uncontrollable." Chen, with his wife Wu Chuntao, is the author of Will the Boat Sink the Water? - a widely praised investigation into conditions in rural China. (The book is banned in China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bitter Earth | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

...With her presidential hopes at stake in Texas and Ohio, Hillary Clinton reached for the cleaver. Her campaign made good on its promise to throw "the kitchen sink" at Obama, and that paid off with clear popular-vote victories in both states. What's more, she said, "I'm just getting warmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Collateral Damage | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

Over the last three days, Hillary Clinton has obviously thrown a lot at you. The kitchen sink, as you say, NAFTA, [controversial real estate developer Antoin] Rezko, 3 a.m. call. What hurt the most? You know, the truth is, in terms of what happened, in the last week, we were down 20 in all these states, and so we were working on closing the gap, but it's not clear to me that even if things were perfect that we could've entirely closed that gap. Partly because she's a very vigorous campaigner, and they had the resources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with Obama: Still Confident | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

...whole, Huckabee distinguished himself by running a campaign that was unwilling lower its standards to win. There were only two major occasions when Huckabee seemed to sink beneath his ideals, once by pandering to the racially divisive confederate flag in South Carolina, and a second time by raising the issue of Mitt Romney's Mormon religion, for which he later apologized. But those low blows were easily forgotten in the larger tone he set for the campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Huckabee's Improbable Insurgency | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

...Veep and Clinton for Secretary of State. The arrangement would be the best of all possible combinations. Obama would bring the inspiration of Kennedy's Camelot, Edwards as Vice President would preclude Bill's getting in the way, and Hillary would get a policy-heavy job she can sink her teeth into. The ticket would be so damn compelling, the Republicans would probably concede in October. Ronald D. Green, San Jose, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 2/27/2008 | See Source »

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