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...previous Administration. "By this point Bill Clinton would have apologized three times to the world," says the Blue Team's Richard Fisher, a China expert at the Jamestown Foundation. While the Blues are encouraged by the new rightward tilt in Washington, they know the pro-engagement policymakers still hold sway. Timperlake vows that "history will put us in the mainstream." China makes the same prediction...
...trendy Central district, Fai has barely sat down with his bottle of Tsingtao, when a bright-eyed girl dances up to him out of the jazz-band din. The hipster aura is already working, but Fai plays it cool. He smiles his big, gummy smile and lets the girl sway back into the jiggling crowd. He turns to the table of men and toasts, "kau lui!" He puts down his bottle and takes the dance floor. But the prey has moved on. Fai has misjudged, and now she's dancing with another, quicker Lothario...
...slow the trend. Even when juvenile-crime rates began to decline in the early '90s, fear of teenage "predators" lingered. States lowered the age at which kids get shifted into the adult system and broadened the definition of so-called adult crimes. They streamlined the process that held sway for much of the last century, whereby a juvenile-court judge decided each child's fate. In more than half the states, certain juvenile offenders now go to adult court without any hearings at all. Once Tate's mother rejected a plea offer and the jury reached a guilty verdict, Broward...
...last week on a kind of technological Temptation Island, quietly playing with Ultimate TV on the bedroom set while TiVo sat in the living room, blissfully unaware of my cheating. And I'm somewhat relieved to report that for all its dual-channel flashiness, Ultimate TV ultimately failed to sway me from my first love...
...friends from the University and elsewhere--including former Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin '70--also met with the committee many times during the nine-month search. But whatever influence they possessed collectively, they are modest about the individual sway they had over the secretive body...