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Cong Qihua, a former farmer who migrated from impoverished Anhui province to seek a better life selling vegetables from a stall in the outskirts of Shanghai, is, in his own way, upwardly mobile. Back in Anhui, he made about $120 a year. Today he and his wife make that much in a month. Still, the pace of his days is not so different. He has no reason to dash about, like many of his fellow Shanghainese, with a cell phone pressed to his ear. "Why would I need one of those things?" asks Cong...
...Other items of interest facing the Senate include several judicial nominations that have not yet been considered; Republicans will likely stall deliberation over potentially problematic candidates until they are back in the driver's seat in January. Appropriations will take on critical weight as the end of the year deadline approaches; Congress was supposed to have approved spending bills by October 1st, and will be forced to use stop-gap measures if funding isn't in place by the end of their session...
...less than a brave and muscular response can save us. "Those who choose to live in denial may eventually be forced to live in fear," Bush declared as he signed the Iraq resolution. Or put another way, all those credulous Clinton folks who cut deals with North Korea to stall its nuclear program, who tossed some bombs on Iraq and walked away, merely postponed the inevitable while making things worse. What was swept under the rug, the hawks say, we are now pulling out and confronting, with an ounce of prevention if possible, a pound of cure if we must...
...help the Democrats keep Minnesota, but what twists of fate create, they can also spirit away. It was Carnahan's unprecedented posthumous victory, along with Jim Jeffords' unexpected party switch, that gave the Democrats their microscopic hold on the Senate in the first place and allowed Tom Daschle to stall, water down and occasionally even block key parts of George W. Bush's agenda. But that margin will be tough to maintain. The Democrats' first problem is Carnahan. Sensing that she is vulnerable, Republicans made her one of their top targets, and they have poured millions of dollars into...
...Gangsters may have been useful in bringing some order to the lawless world of Indian cinema?a huge industry run like a street stall, where no contract is signed and a promise is easily broken. But the bhais don't do favors. They extort money, run their own banks like Shylocks, and demand international distribution rights to potential hit films...