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...carry the same swagger into this weekend's Americas summit in Port of Spain, Trinidad? At first glance, his decade-old Bolivarian Revolution (named for South America's 19th century independence hero, Simón Bolívar) seems as potent as it was four years ago. Chávez, still Venezuela's most popular political figure, just won a referendum that will let him run for re-election as long as he wants. His small but radical leftist bloc of Latin American nations (including Bolivia and Nicaragua) has helped blunt U.S. hegemony and ushered non-hemispheric allies like Russia...
...also duck in from the heat and visit any number of Cartagena's cultural gems - from the stunning Museo de Oro (Gold Museum, at Plaza Bolívar) and Museo de Arte Moderno (Museum of Modern Art, right off la Plaza de San Pedro) to the Cathedral, which offers an exhaustively comprehensive audio tour for $8. (I gave up after about 15 minutes.) There's also the delightfully twisted Palacio de la Inquisición, which, despite its grand name, is a tiny museum that features some of the many torture devices used to elicit confessions of witchcraft...
...still unable to challenge Chávez on a national level, the leftist revolutionary looks likely to win this new bid for indefinite re-election. Chávez "is playing a more effective role against us," concedes student leader Juan Mejia, 22, an engineering major at Simón Bolívar University in Caracas. "But he's doing it mainly by criminalizing...
...China Studies Professor William C. Kirby, who will co-teach Historical Study A-13: “China: Traditions and Transformations” this semester with colleague Peter K. Bol, was reluctant to ascribe attendance at his class—students filled the aisles at the first meeting—to this summer’s international sporting spectacle. But Kirby did not shy away from the subject while teaching—opening the class with 20 minutes of clips from the Olympics’ opening ceremonies...
...Professor Bol and I are trying to work on the issue of grade inflation, and so instead of giving As, Bs and Cs, we’re going to give medals for different competitions in the class,” he said. “And we’ll just have a big medal ceremony...