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So when you see a story like that unfold in the middle of Africa, it's impossible not to be hopeful.
NYT off-leads a piece about Republican pesidential hopeful John McCain's 1989-91 "14-month Senate ethics investigation that ended with his exoneration."
Two weeks ago, Republican presidential hopeful Gary Bauer stood in front of a Louisiana abortion clinic and challenged his rivals "to get a lot more serious about the sanctity-of-life issue."
The story does go on to point out some hopeful developments in the relationship between the two rival A-powers: at meetings in New York yesterday, their prime ministers agreed to resume high-level talks about the region in dispute between them, Kashmir, and also to set-up a communications "hot line."
He ponders the hopeful predictions of Francis Fukuyama that Western civilization is moving gradually, if fitfully, toward greater individual freedom.