Word: alongism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bersin, President Obama's pick for "border czar" essentially had the same job under President Clinton. This time, however, instead of serving under Attorney General Janet Reno, Bersin's boss will be Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who will expect him to handle illegal immigration and drug violence issues along the Mexican-American border. A man who is used to jumping into jobs with almost no experience, Bersin at least has a leg up on this...
...August 1, 2002 memo, along with three other recently declassified documents, can be downloaded here...
...Hotel, www.21cmuseumhotel.com, is located between one museum devoted to native son Muhammad Ali and another to the Louisville Slugger baseball bat. 21C has made Louisville a world-class destination not just for horse-racing fans on the first Saturday in May but also for art aficionados all year round. Along the roofline of the late 18th century former tobacco warehouse is a row of winsome gargoyles in the form of 4-ft. (1.2 m) red-plastic penguins by the Italian collective Cracking Art. Inside, you don't have to check in to get a vast sampling...
...also critical to India for its energy security. Though no Indian-flagged vessel has been taken hostage lately, India has been on the forefront in dealing with hostage situations off the Somali coast, particularly after the Hong Kong-registered MT Stolt Valor was hijacked in September of last year along with its crew of 22, including 18 Indians. The wife of the ship's Indian captain, Seema Goyal, waged a high-profile battle with the help of the media and the NUSI until the hostages were freed two months later. "I knew I would have to create pressure...
...More moderate leftists like Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are regarded as Latin America's standard bearers today. Even if the global economic crisis has borne out Chávez's condemnation of capitalism, it has also sent oil prices plummeting - and his populist largesse along with them. At the same time, some supporters worry that as Chávez accumulates more power at home, he's jeopardizing his democratic cachet. This month he prodded Venezuela's Chavista-dominated National Assembly to pass a law that virtually eliminates the elected office of mayor of Caracas...