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...question is: What took her so long? Biographers have traced Hillary Clinton's beefs about press bias back more than 30 years, to Bill Clinton's first, failed, campaign for Congress, when reporters could have been more diligent in knocking down false rumors about Clinton's anti-Vietnam activities. Yet, while her husband has been grousing about the media's coverage of Obama for months, the candidate was passing out chocolate hearts to her press corps as recently as Valentine's Day. This, too, is part of the saga: since the early 1980s, Hillary Clinton has tried charming the press...
...workers, they tend to hire more American workers as well. Everyone benefits from the lower prices that result from companies moving overseas. Globalization doesn’t hit only the U.S. either. This year, some 10,000 Chinese factories are expected to relocate to cheaper spots like Indonesia and Vietnam. We won’t complain when laptop prices drop. Still, Obama hopes to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement, his most perplexing proposal yet. He wants to impose labor and environmental standards on Canadian and Mexican companies, so U.S. companies face “fair” competition...
...Colombia's historically feckless state and its even more dysfunctional military. Back then, Washington "was seriously considering whether the FARC might win," U.S. Ambassador to Colombia William Brownfield told TIME recently. But the Clinton and Bush II Administrations, still constrained by bitter memories of America's involvement in the Vietnam and Central American conflicts of a generation ago, couldn't stick their hands too directly into Colombia's four-decade-old civil war. What they could do, however, was cloak counter-insurgency as drug interdiction. It's a strategy backed by Colombia's conservative and widely popular President Alvaro Uribe...
...escape by the thousands to neighboring China, hoping desperately for a better life, and for a chance to get into South Korea. Only a very lucky few do. At safe houses run by Christian missionaries in northeastern China, in refugee camps in Thailand and in the jungles of Vietnam and Laos, I have heard tales of bloodcurdling anguish - stories that defy belief, except that there's simply no way in hell these people could be making them up. A young woman who became pregnant in China is captured by Beijing's security services and returned to North Korea...
...class lines--the death penalty, welfare and affirmative action--have virtually disappeared. On foreign policy, blue-collar Dems have grown as tired of the Iraq war as have their upscale counterparts. And downscale white Democrats simply aren't as conservative as they were in the Archie Bunker days. During Vietnam, Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley--the quintessential lunch-pail Democrat--sent cops to bust the heads of hippie protesters. Today his son, Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, opposes the Iraq war, promotes environmentalism and marches in gay-pride parades...