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...very few weeks, Huckabee overcame steep odds with an unusual combination of down-home charm, a ready sense of humor and a fervent faith borne of his roots as a Baptist preacher. He surprised the Republican field with his ease on the stump and took several unorthodox positions on the Iraq war, on taxes and on immigration. In a field that wasn't high on personality, Huckabee was likeable. Noted McCain adviser Mark McKinnon: "Any time I hear two campaigns arguing on Election Day between passion and organization, passion always wins...
...road. That could take the form of a carbon tax that sets a floor on oil prices, a cap-and-trade system that could do virtually the same thing or mandated standards that require the use of less carbon-intensive fuels. (California attempted to go the last route, mandating steep reductions in carbon emissions from cars, but the Environmental Protection Agency last month rejected the law. The state announced today that it would sue the federal government in response.) The safe level varies from technology to technology but programs that keep oil above roughly $50 a barrel would...
...might think competition between sellers would be steep: They’re all just selling books, right? But in this matter, as in much else, the book stores of the Square defy expectations...
...Monday, Sept. 24, this year, the army brutally cracked down on an estimated 100,000 protestors in Rangoon. Foreign diplomats estimate that several hundred, including many monks, were shot or bludgeoned to death by the army. The protests had started a month earlier due to the steep hike in fuel prices, and gathered massive momentum when the junta refused to apologize for firing over the heads of protesting monks in Pakokku on Sept...
...policies that attend to the interests of commercial agriculture—almost 150,000 farmers committed suicide between 1997 and 2005 (the equivalent of one every 32 minutes). In China, despite surging growth rates, peasant incomes have reportedly stagnated. This has generated mass discontent, as evidenced by a steep increase in the number of protests recorded nationally (87,000 in 2005, up from 8,700 in 1993). And while rural distress is particularly pronounced, the urban working classes are often equally enraged. In the province of Guandong, home to a Special Economic Zone that recorded growth rates...