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...elected President in March by a wafer-thin majority; his legislative agenda is now likely to remain stalled. Latin Union PERU Twelve South American countries - including Brazil and Argentina, the continent's largest nations - signed a declaration creating the South American Community of Nations, an economic and political bloc that its leaders hope will one day mirror the E.U. Justices Found Wanting ECUADOR A new Supreme Court took office a day after Congress voted to replace 27 of its 31 members. President Lucio Gutiérrez said that the previous Supreme Court was biased toward the Social Christian opposition, which...
...Maats says. And when Mather welcomed its new freshmen in March, its representatives proudly displayed their affiliation with “Mathergrad: The Kremlin on the Charles,” dressed in their new House t-shirts emblazoned with the slogan “34 years of Soviet bloc housing” and a hammer and sickle that had been turned into a beer bottle...
...Latin American history and economics, noted in an e-mail that prominent Jews—including Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt—made the same comparison to Nazism in 1948 when they denounced the Herut Party, the predecessor to current Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Likud bloc...
...reputed hard-liner, Soe Win has been accused by the U.S. State Department of direct involvement in a mob attack on Nobel Peace Prize winner and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi last year, in which dozens of her followers were killed. And some members of the regional bloc are increasingly apprehensive about Burma's turn to chair ASEAN in 2006. (The leadership rotates among its members.) "ASEAN is heading toward a very embarrassing situation," says Senator Kraisak Choonhavan, chairman of Thailand's Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs...
...credited with steering the country through the turbulence of the 1998 Russian economic crash. Tapped by President Leonid Kuchma as Prime Minister a year later, Yushchenko alienated Ukraine's financial oligarchs and overshadowed his unpopular boss, who fired him in 2001. As head of the Our Ukraine opposition bloc, he has become a skilled political adversary, leading meticulously planned demonstrations and framing the election in stark, eloquent terms. "Our choice is very simple," he said just before the runoff. "Either we live according to the code of ethics of the criminal underworld, or we live like free and affluent people...