Beating
May 18 2008, AP

Making up for lost time, Barack Obama is dashing full-tilt into the general-election fight against Republican John McCain without waiting for the Democratic marathon to end.He’s running down McCain more often than the woman he’s nominally still...

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La Peikang, deputy director general of China’s Film Bureau, smiles in the Asia-Pacific Film Policy Forum at the 13th Pusan International Film Festival in Busan, south of Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008. La said that Chinese films have made...