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Right now, neither pride nor condescension is the order of the day. Revelations of the tawdry behavior of modern MPs - expensing everything from improvements to second homes to their spouse's porn - have led to popular outrage in Britain and claimed the scalp of the Speaker of the House of Commons, a supposedly above-the-fray symbol of Parliament's reputation. The scandal has exposed what anyone who has spent time in the House of Commons knows well; that many of its members are has-beens and never-will-bes, self-important rhetoricians inebriated (as one truly great parliamentarian said...
...here to share with you today some of the things I learned in ____ (my time at Harvard, my post-fifth grade life, prison). Many of those lessons came while I was _____ (at The Crimson, in sixth grade, in solitary confinement). In the grand tradition of speakers before me, I’d like to send you out into the world with some totally original and not at all trite words of wisdom about what I’ve learned about ____ (how life imitates sport, algebra, remorse for my crimes).The first lesson is that the good guys don?...
...Ahead of this week's visit to China, Pelosi's first as Speaker of the House, there was some nervousness in China that the high-ranking Democrat would publicly raise human-rights concerns at a sensitive time in Beijing - just one week before the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre. But thus far, the American politician, who is facing questions at home about what she knew of the CIA's waterboarding of terrorism suspects, has given her hosts little to worry about. When she did mention human rights, it was in the broad context of international relations, rather than specific...
...speech on Tuesday at a Beijing conference on climate change, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that global warming "is a game changer in the U.S.-China relationship." For the California Democrat's relationship with China, it already has been. She has gone from being one of the most officially reviled public figures in China to someone who is tolerated, if not exactly celebrated. (Watch TIME's video "Olympic Torch: Back on Chinese Soil...
...reach very different conclusions on the specific steps needed to protect us from harm." You can say that again. In recent weeks, the President and just about every other major politician from both parties have been boggled by soldier-lawyer disputes. Some have been small: whether or not House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was adequately briefed on the CIA's use of waterboarding in 2002. Others cut to the core of asymmetrical warfare, especially the question of what sort of rights to grant prisoners captured in a war that is likely to be fought in perpetuity against an amorphous, stateless enemy...