Word: argentina
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...someone who didn't come. "Fidel Castro said he just hoped Bush would not turn out to be as stupid as he seems," said Naim. In addition to Bush's mandate problems, a sharply divided U.S. Congress could make it difficult for Washington to intervene quickly if, say, Argentina's economy crumpled again. "The fear is not of a slowdown, but that a slowdown will become worse because of slow thinking," said Naim. It doesn't help that some of Bush's closest advisers are critics of the International Monetary Fund--though Naim doubted that the U.S. would stand aside...
...George Bush the First seemed presidential for a time (a quick, successful war makes a man very presidential), but then went unpresidential when he started saying things like "Don't cry for me, Argentina" and vomiting on other heads of state...
...Angeles (see Eulogy). DIED. TAKAHASHI ASAHINA, 93, musical director of the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra; in Kobe. Asahina received Japan's prestigious Order of Culture in 1994, becoming only the second classical musician to be given the government award. DIED. GUIDO DI TELLA, 71, former Foreign Minister of Argentina who mended relations with Britain after the 1982 Falkland Islands war; in Buenos Aires. Serving from 1991-99, Di Tella possessed a diplomatic savvy that culminated in the 1998 visit to England by Carlos Menem, the first by an Argentinian President after the war. DIED. EILEEN HECKART, 82, recipient of an Oscar...
...anthropologist focuses on the evolution of the human reproductive system in response to environmental challenges like workload and disease, as well as the effects of factors like age. His fieldwork began 15 years ago with the pygmies of central South America and now includes work from Poland, Paraguay and Argentina...
...have an electoral migraine. I mutter to myself about chads. I splutter like Chris Matthews. We are all beginning to hyperventilate, as if trying to deliver a president by the Lamaze method. Pretty soon we will be singing "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina...