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John McCain's campaign has been working overtime to ridicule Barack Obama as "the One," the rock-star celebrity with adoring fans, the politician with the chutzpah to announce his candidacy in a speech about Abraham Lincoln. So it was a bit surprising to watch the opening of McCain's town-hall meeting in York, Pa., on Tuesday...
...team's best all-around gymnast who came a few tenths short of an all-around individual medal at last year's world championships in Stuttgart, acknowledges that he "gets hyped up, and psyched in the moment. I'm off the wall constantly talking gymnastics and saying 'Hey, watch those routines [of the other gymnasts]'", he says. "And Kevin would say 'Would you pay attention to yourself and everything that we are doing.' He always sets us straight and puts us in line." Justin Spring, a Virginia native whose vibrant and excitable personality matches Horton's, agrees, and appreciates that...
...influence would be tremendous. Even before [mainland people] come to Taiwan, many of them watch Taiwan TV. On March 22, my election day, the vote counting process after the booths were closed lasted for about 2 to 3 hours. It was televised live worldwide. We estimate that at least 300 million overseas Chinese and mainland Chinese were watching that. Three years ago when we had local elections, the same thing happened. I was so impressed and so astonished. They didn't even know the candidates. Why would they want to watch that? It just happened that in the next...
...terrorist attack by Xinjiang separatists is the greatest danger to the Olympics - though critics say much of the government's credibility has been lost by its repeated "conflation of violent and nonviolent" opposition to Chinese rule, as Nicholas Bequelin, a China researcher with New York City - based Human Rights Watch, puts...
...Chinese control of the region solidified and was extended down to the village level. Bequelin, who wrote his Ph.D. thesis on the separatist movement in Xinjiang, says the latest attack underscores the "complete failure" of China's heavy-handed policies in both Xinjiang and Tibet. "We have to watch the government's reaction carefully," says Bequelin. "They shouldn't use this as an excuse to become even more oppressive. If people don't have the space to express the grievances they will be driven to support more extreme means of demonstrating their discontent...