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...Lula should have plenty of support for his strategy, since surveys show most Latin Americans have soured on closer trade ties with the U.S. Latin poverty has worsened amid capitalist reforms - a big reason why Bolivians last month forced free- marketeer President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada to resign. In Peru, the polling firm APOYO has found that only around one-third of voters agreed with their government's decision to take Peru out of the G-22. Lula and Brazil have harnessed decades of pent-up frustration with hefty U.S. tariffs. For example, Brazil and the U.S. together...
...open her eyes lemurishly wide to convey fear, soulfulness and joy alike. The real lead--because he did cooperate with NBC--is Mohammed al-Rehaief (Nicholas Guilak), the lawyer who tipped off the Army that Lynch was being held at a Nasiriyah hospital. He's the One Good Iraqi amid a citizenry depicted as either resentful of the Americans or cowed by Saddam's sneering, strutting fedayeen...
...Amid all the hubbub regarding the hows and whys of Schwarzenegger's victory, there is an overlooked explanation: he may simply represent what has been lacking in politics for a considerable while. He is a self-made man who has enough money so he never needs to ingratiate himself with the various lobbyists and political-action committees that plague our system. Instead of spending his entire career ensconced in a bureaucracy spending other people's money, he built a thriving business and career. Maybe what many voters want is someone who has actually had to live and survive...
...Amid all the hubbub regarding the hows and whys of Schwarzenegger's victory, there is an overlooked explanation: he may simply represent what has been lacking in politics for a considerable while. He is a self-made man who has enough money, so he doesn't need to ingratiate himself with the lobbyists and political-action committees that plague our system. Instead of spending his entire career ensconced in a bureaucracy spending other people's money, he built a thriving business and career. Maybe what many voters want is someone who has actually had to live and survive...
...Amid the special teams frustrations, the play of Noah Welch and Peter Hafner against Dartmouth’s top forwards was a good sign, as was the play of freshman defender Dylan Reese...