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...Then Chen addresses the small crowd under the canopy, straining to find that memorable tone?his voice modulating, his thick southern accent wandering through tenor registers as he praises the community for pulling together. He has done a hundred of these stump speeches?dedicating elementary schools, christening buildings, opening military bases. What he is saying is by now rote, the usual praise for Taiwan and the spirit of its people. But what he seems to be trying to get across is: come with me, come with me to this new Taiwan, this better place, we will have to find...
...find any tree huggers in the White House: just a proud Texan who sank a few wells in the oil patch and his deputy, Cheney, a Texas transplant who made millions as CEO of Halliburton. Those ties give critics plenty to latch onto as the President and the Veep stump for achieving greater capacity by opening a pristine Alaskan preserve for oil drilling and by putting a new power plant online every week for the next 20 years...
...that's the secret of China's economic 'miracle.' The government knows this. So the government protects the bosses and does not enforce the law." The result, he says, is a rising swell of anger directed at the government and the Communist Party. Lai Nilang, 19, slaps the scarred stump of his right arm, crushed four days into his job in a computer-chip factory. "The government doesn't care about us, only money," he murmurs. "People hate them." Zhou looks at his young client, gauging his loathing. "If you neglect the people, then the balance of society is upset...
...atmosphere would be corrosive to the Institute and hurts the hopes of attracting the atypical yet politically-interested undergraduate. The purpose of the Institute should be to inspire all undergraduates into public life and careers in politics, not to offer would-be politicos an opportunity to sharpen their stump speeches. We can only hope that does not happen in the years to come...
...President saw this argument coming, and in his budget message tried to stake out a middle position familiar from his campaign stump speeches, rejecting the old dichotomy of Big Government vs. Small Government in favor of--well, both. He had "a new vision for governing the nation." "For too long," he said, "politics in Washington has been divided between those who wanted Big Government without regard to cost and those who wanted Small Government without regard to need." Yet Big-Government needs dominated his team's public presentations. Cabinet Secretaries rushed to the cameras to boast of increases for children...