Word: battleground
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...battle over Taiwan may be decided not by missiles and destroyers but by words. And Beijing maintains a formidable armory of weapons in the propaganda fight. Sure, there's plenty in the news to bicker over?American arms sales, ex-President Lee Teng-hui's tourist diplomacy?but this battleground is primarily historic...
...Cheney insists that "good politics is a sound energy policy." But coal has political energy that other fuels can't match. It's plentiful in the political-battleground states of the Midwest and Southeast. West Virginia, the capital of coal, provided Bush his margin of victory in electoral votes and marked a G.O.P. breakthrough. Sources tell TIME that White House political director Ken Mehlman cited Bush's victory in that Democratic presidential stronghold as a reason why he should renounce a campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide, a major coal pollutant. "The current political climate is the best...
...Virginia, when Governor Jim Gilmore replaced the old, pro-rebel state proclamation of Confederate History Month with a new one honoring "all Virginians who served in the Civil War," the Sons of Confederate Veterans condemned him for "honoring people who...murdered, raped and pillaged." In Selma, Ala., a battleground in the 1960s civil rights movement, whites are militant in defense of a new statue of Confederate hero Nathan Bedford Forrest, even though he was the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan...
...Charles also served as battleground for a race between No. 7 Radcliffe, No. 6 Syracuse, and Dartmouth on Saturday evening...
...talking about a few thousand people, but it's not yet a humanitarian crisis - human rights and aid organizations in the area have not characterized it as such. It doesn't look like ethnic cleansing. Rather, it's a large number of civilians temporarily fleeing a battleground. Most have not declared themselves refugees, and say they'll return when the situation is normalized. They're taking shelter with relatives and friends rather than humanitarian agencies, so it appears that they see their situation as temporary. But if fighting resumes, it could easily become a humanitarian crisis. So once again...