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...Beijing has what it used to call "core interests" - issues that stand above and beyond the rest. Taiwan is one. Another - a recent product of its economic surge - is long-term access to the oil, gas and minerals needed to fuel the country's growth for decades to come. Iran, from whom Beijing now buys a tick over 400,000 barrels a day (about 14% of China's total oil imports), is clearly part of that future. But U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently called out Beijing in public to get off the fence and sign...
...favor with investors because of its high government debt. In a sure sign that these troubles are serious, market analysts have assigned them a catchy acronym: PIGS, for Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain (or PIIGS if you include Italy). In early February, the panic began to spread beyond their borders, with markets flailing in Europe and then around the world...
Popular as he is among tweens and those who read to them, however, Percy's appeal may not extend beyond that group. The weekend before the movie's opening, about 600 fans turned up for an event in Atlanta, far fewer than your average Potter or Twilight draw. Then again, the franchise passes at least one Hollywood test: two of the film's stars, Pierce Brosnan and Kevin McKidd, signed on because their kids love the books...
These days, the group is particularly concerned with gays in the military. Beyond opposing the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, the organization of lay Catholics would like to see all homosexuals banned from the military, according to a white and green pamphlet they were handing out. The case against gays in the military is laid out in a book, displayed prominently, called An American Knight: The Life of Colonel John W. Ripley, USMC, yours for just $14.95. (See a stimulus report card after one year...
...video games (XPAC was strictly nonalcoholic). As the gray-haired contingent listened to George Will explore the future of the movement and ate at a "presidential banquet" upstairs at the Marriot Wardman, where the conference was being held, the cool kids had already moved on to Adams Morgan and beyond. (See 10 GOP congressional contenders...