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...voters polls? My advantage is largely a product of President Kirchner's political project, which has produced strong economic growth without the unemployment and institutional ruptures we saw as a result of the neoliberal capitalist reforms of the 1990s, which brought on the crisis. For most of the 20th century, such ruptures in Argentina and Latin America were usually a result of military coups; but after the fall of the Berlin Wall they've often resulted from following the Washington Consensus [U.S.-backed capitalist reform policies...
...classified as "degraded," slowly losing the diverse collection of native plants that normally flourish there and fueling the massive dust storms that blow across China every spring. Nomadic herders have raised camels, goats, cows, and sheep on these grasslands for hundreds of years, but in the middle of the 20th century, China's population boom and demand for more meat sent livestock numbers soaring. By 1990, some regions were literally grazed bare, herders whose animals were dying off descended into poverty, and grasslands that used to harbor hundreds of plant species had turned to wasteland...
Viewed from washington, Latin American politics can sometimes seem like a throwback to an earlier age, as if the U.S. were watching a meeting of a Che Guevara fan club. Leftist, anti-Yanqui sentiments, thought to have faded with the 20th century, have made a comeback, embodied by leaders like Venezuela's radical Hugo Chàvez, Brazil's former union boss Luiz Inàcio Lula da Silva and Bolivia's socialist Evo Morales. Never mind coming to terms with these leaders--the U.S. finds it hard even to talk with them. An interpreter would be useful...
Cristina Fernàndez de Kirchner has the qualifications for the job. She is Argentina's glamorous and vivacious First Lady and is all but certain to be its next President. Feel free to make the inevitable comparison to the country's 20th century heroine, because Fernàndez, 54, enjoys being called the "new Evita." She certainly shares some of Eva Perón's passion and combativeness. But in truth, she more resembles a contemporary headliner: Hillary Clinton. Fernàndez, too, married her law-school sweetheart and helped him become the Governor of a small southern province...
...semester I was spending entire Saturdays curled in a chair at Darwin’s, gulping down “Ulysses” and Kant. I left Harvard on a stream-of-consciousness buzz, bound for home in Omaha, Neb., with a suitcase full of the 20th century’s greatest literary inventors, intending to keep riding the high straight through “Finnegan’s Wake.” And then the buzz died. From June to August I couldn’t read more than 30 pages of a book before I got bored...