the-reaction.blogspot.com - 12/18/2008
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By Michael J.W. Stickings As you've probably heard by now, Time 's Person of the Year for 2008 is, as was fully expected and as is richly deserved, Barack Obama . Seriously, did anyone even come close this year? The runners-up are an interesting bunch: Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson , ...
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 12/18/2008
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
Kevin Drum raises the specter of the trade
deficit: Maybe we really can’t worry too much about...
this at the moment. But the trade deficit bubble is going to pop eventually just like the dotcom bubble and the housing bubble. We at least ...
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Questions That Are Too Hard for Me
nytimes.com - 12/20/2008
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nytimes.com —
Authorities have begun blocking access from mainland China
to the Web site of The New York Times...
even while lifting some of the restrictions they had imposed on the Web sites of other media outlets. >
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China Blocks Access to The Times’s Web Site
timesonline.co.uk - 12/26/2008
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timesonline.co.uk —
Three Chinese navy ships, armed with special forces,
helicopters and missiles, are on their way to join...
the international anti-piracy task force patrolling the waters off Somalia. The three vessels - two destroyers and a supply ship - will sail from ...
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China sends navy to fight Somali pirates
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... Time's Person of the Year was so predictable it didn't generate much buzz, but Michael Stickings has some thoughts on runner-up Zhang Yimou for all you cinephiles. ...
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Obama Defends Rev. Warren Selection —
WSJ.com: Washington Wire 12/18/2008
Susan Davis reports on politics.
President-elect Barack Obama has come under fire from gay rights groups and others since the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies announced Wednesday that Rev. Rick Warren will give the ...
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From NBC's Mark Murray As Republican pollster Bill McInturff sees it, two differences would have made last month's presidential contest much closer -- had the financial collapse occurred on Dec. 15 instead of Sept. 15, and had the Republican ...
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