Published: Feb 23, 2012
BEIJING — Cultural clichés somersaulted last weekend when Vice President Xi Jinping of China , the man expected to be the country’s next leader, told the people of Ireland on a visit there: Cheer up! The irony of a representative of what are perhaps the world’s greatest pragmatists telling perhaps the world’s greatest
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Published: Feb 19, 2012
Despite polls showing overwhelming public support and endorsements from celebrities like Lance Armstrong, efforts to establish a statewide smoking ban in the workplace have fallen flat in recent sessions of the Texas Legislature. But a state agency is finding that the billions of dollars it has at its disposal may allow it to be more effective in
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Published: Feb 16, 2012
WASHINGTON — On the second day of an ambitious tour through the United States, China ’s vice president and presumed next leader, Xi Jinping , said Wednesday that the two nations must respect each other’s “core interests” while working to build trust and cooperation on a variety of issues, including trade policies and
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Published: Feb 15, 2012
WASHINGTON — Election years always bring with them tough balancing efforts for presidential candidates trying to stay on the good side of powerful constituencies. But few can come close to the high-wire act that President Obama must perform in the next two days as he seeks to soothe Hollywood, that longtime bastion of fund-raising dollars for
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Published: Feb 15, 2012
WASHINGTON — China ’s vice president and likely future leader, Xi Jinping , embarked on a get-to-know-you tour of the United States on Tuesday, with a day of meetings from the White House to the Pentagon. But he was met with blunt criticism from his host, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. , who declared that the United States and China
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Published: Feb 15, 2012
WASHINGTON -- Election years always bring with them tough balancing efforts for presidential candidates trying to stay on the good side of powerful constituencies. But few can come close to the high-wire act that President Obama must perform in the next two days as he seeks to soothe Hollywood, that longtime bastion of fund-raising dollars for
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Published: Feb 15, 2012
WASHINGTON -- China's vice president and likely future leader, Xi Jinping, embarked on a get-to-know-you tour of the United States on Tuesday, with a day of meetings from the White House to the Pentagon. But he was met with blunt criticism from his host, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who declared that the United States and China could
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Published: Feb 14, 2012
The assessment of NATO's decade-long mission in Afghanistan looks grim compared with the amount of sacrifice in blood and in treasure. But if we compare today's Afghanistan to the time when the Taliban ruled, we recognize considerable improvements in many aspects of life, especially human rights, education, health care, the economy, and media
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Published: Feb 13, 2012
As President Obama shifts more fully into campaign mode, he faces the increasingly difficult task of balancing his policy duties as president with his political imperatives as a candidate. The week ahead will test his ability to manage those two roles as the White House and his campaign advisers juggle fund-raising, legislative maneuvering and
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Published: Feb 12, 2012
One day in October 2006, my editor gave me the same assignment that hundreds of other editors were giving their business writers. He told me to go to a trading floor to witness the magical moment when the Dow Jones Industrial Average passed 12,000 points. He may have envisioned cheers, shouts, balloons, traders cutting one another's ties and (this
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