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...here?" A year ago, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said he was "deeply saddened" when Zuma staged a party coup against his predecessor Thabo Mbeki, "deeply disturbed" that both had used institutions of state in their struggle and warned that path "leads to a banana republic." This February, Afrikaner author André Brink published a memoir in which he described the "disillusionment, resentment, and rage tinged with despair" over the "rottenness" in South Africa...
...Andrés Eloy Ruiz, a humanities professor at Caracas' Central University and a spokesman for the Venezuelan education law that contains the new media rules, calls that nonsense. "This is not a 'Cuban' law," he says. Ruiz dismisses charges that the measure, which for the first time mandates bilingual education for indigenous children but also demands classrooms based on Bolivarian principles, will impose socialist instruction in schools. "There are no private schools or media in Cuba, but we guarantee their rights here," he adds. "We're simply requiring them to be responsible. The terrorist opposition wants to sow fear...
That's nonsense. Chávez led a failed coup in 1992 against then Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez, a U.S ally. Pérez too was a lawbreaker - he was later convicted for embezzlement. But had Chávez's coup succeeded, it would have been universally condemned, and rightly so. Honduras' coup leaders have more in common with Chávez than they care to admit. Obama says he doesn't stand with them. Now he has to work harder to ensure their coup doesn't stand...
...recession-stalled economy. But detractors on both the left and right just as energetically decry it as a vulgar consumerist assault on tradition, families and even French democracy. "We've got better things to propose to our fellow citizens than a life of commuting, sleeping and buying," lamented André Lardeux, one of many senators from the ruling Union for a Popular Majority party who defied President Nicolas Sarkozy by voting against his pet law to liberalize Sunday commerce. (See pictures of President Sarkozy in London...
...attending the factory's closing ceremony had other ideas. Florian Kaps, an Austrian entrepreneur and Polaroid enthusiast, and André Bosman, until then the engineering manager of the Enschede plant, met by chance on that fateful day. Together they decided to find a way to bring instant photography back to life. (See "Who We Were: America in Snapshots...