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...President's visit, Norton ran a negative ad lambasting the Obama Administration for excessive spending. "We wanted to take advantage of this opportunity of the President coming to town to really make a point that the spending has to stop, the debt has to come down, and that the government health care takeover needs to be shelved," says Nate Strauch, Norton's press secretary, who says Bennet's policies are "in lockstep" with the President's. In remarks at a Denver auditorium, Obama sought to position Bennet as an anti-establishment political neophyte. "Even though Michael Bennet has been serving...
...Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the U.S. wouldn't allow human-rights issues to derail cooperation with China on other fronts, like stabilizing the global economy. Last fall Obama delayed meeting with the Dalai Lama when he was in Washington to avoid angering China ahead of his first visit to the country. That move was criticized by some as too deferential, as was Obama's approach to human-rights issues during his three-day trip, which Chinese activists called disappointingly limited...
...Meanwhile, thousands wait, unregistered, and unsure of what their future holds. A visit of European Parliament members to the country this week to assess the situation may help highlight the suffering of a community and provoke a regional response to a challenge that today is being left to Bangladesh alone to grapple with. Leaving Kutu Palong, the children are still smiling, the chorus of 'hellos' replaced with 'goodbyes.' Many lives have begun in this camp in the last decade. Many will end here, too, without a birth or death certificate to prove that they ever existed...
...Dalai Lama threatened to further damage already tense Sino-U.S. relations. But after the President held an hour-long talk on Thursday at the White House with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the reaction from Beijing was relatively muted. (See pictures of the Dalai Lama's visit to the White House...
...warmer times between the two nations. Part of Beijing's restraint this week may be due to the fact that the meeting came during the Chinese New Year, the country's biggest holiday, when most officials are on leave. But after China allowed a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier to visit Hong Kong this week, China is sending signals that it doesn't want ties to decline too sharply. (See pictures of the Dalai Lama's six decades of spiritual leadership...