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While holding out against lucrative trade concessions demanded by Wall Street and Hollywood, Zhu is offering to let American telecommunications firms own Chinese cell phone and Internet companies, which presumably would undermine China's ability to quash domestic dissent.
Ten Commissioners-five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation's capital at a time of great partisan division-have come together to present this report without dissent.
When reports about McCain's bad temper first emerged out of Arizona this fall, they indicated that he had muscled, rebuked, punished, and cowed fellow Republicans in order to squelch dissent.
On democracy, for example, American activists are raging over China's recent suppression of all democratic dissent.
Chatterbox, who rarely disagrees with his Slate colleague Jacob Weisberg, a k a "Ballot Box," must dissent from Weisberg's view that Bill Bradley made Al Gore look like a jerk today on Meet the Press . As Weisberg rightly points out, the key moment was when Gore proposed to Bradley that they both agree to stop all television and radio advertising until the nomination is decided, and instead debate twice a week for the duration of the campaign.