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...Beijing's own regulations specifying that they can interview anyone Chinese who agrees to talk. "They still don't have any idea what is going to hit them or how bad they will look to the outside world," comments one senior Western academic who has close ties to the upper echelons of the Beijing establishment. If its conduct over the past year is anything to go by, Beijing's instinctive reaction to new problems will be to use its heavy hand once more...
...then make money, it's a very understandable psychological drive to want to openly spend it," says Chandra Bhan Prasad, a pioneering Dalit newspaper columnist. That's especially true, says Prasad, if you feel unwelcome by the traditional ruling classes: "There is still a feeling among many in the upper-caste Hindu élite that she's not acceptable...
...Mayawati's master stroke was to drop her weary slogans calling on her supporters to use their shoes to "beat" upper-caste Brahmins and to reach out to them; many feel as sidelined by the middle-ranking castes who control much of government these days as do the Dalits. That unlikely coalition, key to Congress's decades of dominance in Indian politics, is now working for Mayawati. "The difference with Congress is that they were using Dalits but keeping them on a bottom level, whereas we are all on an equal platform with a Dalit leader at the top," says...
...holds so much sway in Pennsylvania politics actually grew up on Manhattan's Upper West Side. He migrated to Philadelphia for college and stayed there after law school, in the district attorney's office. In 1977 Rendell audaciously ran against his boss and beat him in the primary. But his faith in himself hasn't always been so well placed. Rendell fell far short when he ran for governor in 1986, getting trampled, as it happened, by Casey's father and setting up a familial rivalry-one that continues in the 2008 presidential race now that Casey is Obama...
...delegates hailed from Precinct 110, a suburban, middle- to upper-middle-class neighborhood in northwest Austin, just a stone's throw from Dell Computer and other Austin high-tech companies. In so many ways, the group was a mirror of Austin - a multicultural mix of whites, Asians, African Americans and Hispanics, immigrant and native-born, young men and middle-aged single women, a guy with a ponytail, a woman with a Caribbean accent, an Arab-American precinct chairman, a graphic designer, a teacher-cum-soccer mom, an entrepreneur, a real estate company owner. All of them were participating in their...